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Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014 - Prohibits the executive branch of the government from:
exempting or deferring from removal, by executive order, regulation, or any other means, categories of aliens considered under the immigration laws to be unlawfully present in the United States;
States that such prohibition shall not apply:
to the extent prohibited by the Constitution;
Declares that any executive branch action intending to circumvent the objectives of this Act shall be null and void and without legal effect.
States that this Act shall take effect as if enacted on November 20, 2014, and shall apply to requests (whether the request is original or for reopening of a previously denied request) submitted on or after that date for: (1) work authorization; or (2) exemption from, or deferral of, removal.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5759 as passed House amended on Dec 4, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Dec 4, 2014Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveDec 4, 2014
House Dec 4, 2014 · the primary vote
To establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief
Passed
219 Yea 197 Nay 15 not voting · 3 present
Party-line vote 10 of 416 voting members broke with their own party: 3 Democrats, 7 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5759 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5759 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
12 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.