[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 185 (Thursday, December 12, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S7043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               VETERANS BENEFITS IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2023

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration 
of S. 2513, 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 (S. 2513) to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve benefits administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the Moran-Tester substitute 
amendment be considered and agreed to; the bill, as amended, be 
considered read a third time and passed; and the motion to reconsider 
be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3326) in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The bill (S. 2513), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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