[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 4038. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr.
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and
for other purposes; as follows:
At the end of title II of division B, add the following:
Sec. 251. Not later than September 30, 2017, the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs shall--
(1) provide for the conduct by the Office of Inspector
General of the Department of Veterans Affairs of an
inspection or audit of the use of Federal award GU1103 in the
amount of $3,265,487 that was awarded in 2013 to renovate a
veteran's cemetery in Guam under the Veterans Cemetery Grants
Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including--
(A) an itemized accounting of the use of such award; or
(B) if no such itemized accounting is possible, an
explanation of why any amounts in connection with such award
are unaccounted for;
(2) submit to the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the
results on the inspection or audit conducted under paragraph
(1); and
(3) publish the results on the inspection or audit
conducted under paragraph (1) on a publicly available
Internet website of the Department.
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