[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 14, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1130]
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             SERGEANT ERNEST I. ``BOOTS'' THOMAS VA CLINIC

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration 
of S. 2246 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2246) to designate the health care center of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs in Tallahassee, Florida, as 
     the Sergeant Ernest I. ``Boots'' Thomas VA Clinic, and for 
     other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or 
debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2246) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2246

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
                   CLINIC IN FLORIDA.

       (a) Designation.--The Health Care Center of the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs located at 2181 Orange Avenue in 
     Tallahassee, Florida, shall after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act be known and designated as the ``Sergeant Ernest 
     I. `Boots' Thomas VA Clinic''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     clinic referred to in paragraph (1) shall be considered to be 
     a reference to the Sergeant Ernest I. ``Boots'' Thomas VA 
     Clinic.

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