[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 125 (Tuesday, July 22, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4543]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2972. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 3944, making appropriations for military 
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In section 412, before the period at the end, insert the 
     following: ``Provided, That, the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs shall publish quarterly on a publicly available 
     website of the Department of Veterans Affairs a report on the 
     number of veterans who should have been reported to the 
     national instant criminal background check system established 
     under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention 
     Act (34 U.S.C. 40901) if such reporting by the Secretary was 
     permitted, and of those veterans, the number of suicides by 
     firearm that occurred in the previous quarter''.

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