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<item congress="114" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3113" measure-id="id114hr3113" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2015-07-16" update-date="2015-09-03">
<title>Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2015</title>
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<action-date>2015-07-16</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2015 </strong></p> <p>Prohibits the appropriation of funds, or the obligation or expenditure of funds by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for any VA alternative energy generation project unless the funds for such project have been specifically authorized by law.</p> <p>Directs the VA to transfer all unobligated funds that were appropriated to it before this Act's enactment for an alternative energy generation project to the VA's account funding veterans' medical care.</p>]]></summary-text>
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