[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1653. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EXPANSION OF DUTIES OF UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 
                   FOR PERSONNEL AND READINESS.

       Section 136(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by striking ``and health affairs'' and inserting the 
     following: ``health affairs, and the coordination, use, 
     acquisition, or exchange of joint requirements and resources 
     with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and implementation of 
     recommendations made under section 320(c)(1) of title 38''.
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