[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 208 (Wednesday, December 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DEPENDABLE EMPLOYMENT AND LIVING IMPROVEMENTS FOR VETERANS ECONOMIC 
                              RECOVERY ACT

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 
7105 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 7105) to provide flexibility for the Secretary 
     of Veterans Affairs in caring for homeless veterans during a 
     covered public health emergency, to direct the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs to carry out a retraining assistance program 
     for unemployed veterans, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which was reported from the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  Mr. INHOFE. I ask unanimous consent that the Moran substitute 
amendment at the desk be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be considered 
read a third time and passed, and that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 2696) in the nature of a substitute was agreed to, 
as follows:
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read the third time.
  The bill (H.R. 7105), as amended, was passed.

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