[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3223. Mr. MURPHY (for himself and Mr. Kelly) 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 would 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 but for this section, and of those veterans, the 
     number of suicides by firearm that occurred in the previous 
     quarter''.

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