Senate bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on individuals who assist aliens who have engaged in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings to enter the United States.
Sponsor: Sen. Jeff Sessions R-ALWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 19, 2008
- Committee actionSep 11, 2008
- Passed SenateSep 26, 2008 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 2008 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3166.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3166, A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on individuals who assist aliens who have engaged in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings to enter the United States” on September 16, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 12, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 16, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20252
- CBO publication date
- September 16, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3166, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/s/3166
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1e65befd06d91e5b029b0f17b67ea9a162c98c2e90ea2d30bbcccf4927fb963b
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3166, A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on individuals who assist aliens who have engaged in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings to enter the United States” on September 16, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 12, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 16, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20252
- CBO publication date
- September 16, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3166, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/s/3166
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1e65befd06d91e5b029b0f17b67ea9a162c98c2e90ea2d30bbcccf4927fb963b
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 3166, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
2 of 5 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tom Coburn (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Arlen Specter (D-PA).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.