[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 12 (Friday, January 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S350-S351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1914. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title 44, United States Code, to 
restrict the distribution of free printed copies of the Federal 
Register to Members of Congress and other officers and employees of the 
United States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR 
                   VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES.

       (a) Appropriation of Funds for Veterans Benefits and 
     Services.--During a funding gap impacting the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make 
     available to the Secretary of Veterans

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     Affairs, out of any amounts in the general fund of the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines necessary to 
     continue to administer and provide benefits and services to 
     veterans, dependents, and survivors provided under chapters 
     11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 23, 30, 31, 33, 35, and 39 of title 38, 
     United States Code.
       (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``funding gap'' means any period of time after the beginning 
     of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year 
     appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
     that fiscal year have not been enacted.
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