[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 100 (Monday, June 13, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2913]
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  SA 5080. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5051 proposed by Mr. Tester (for himself and Mr. Moran) to 
the bill H.R. 3967, to improve health care and benefits for veterans 
exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes; which was ordered 
to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ANNUAL REPORT AND RECISSIONS.

       (a) Annual Report.--Not later than September 30 of each 
     fiscal year, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit 
     to Congress and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a 
     report detailing the amounts, denoted in dollars, expended by 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs in that fiscal year to 
     carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act.
       (b) Annual Recissions.--At the beginning of each fiscal 
     year, beginning with the first fiscal year beginning after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall rescind, from such accounts of the Treasury as 
     the Secretary considers appropriate, amounts that were 
     appropriated to such accounts more than five years previously 
     and remain unobligated. The total amount rescinded under this 
     subsection in a fiscal year shall be equal to the total 
     amount last reported by the Secretary under subsection (a).
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