[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 22, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2019]
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SA 5307. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 33, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2027 through 2035; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ALLOWING
DEPORTED VETERANS TO TEMPORARILY PAROLE INTO
THE UNITED STATES TO RECEIVE CARE FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
allowing certain non-citizen veterans who were ordered
removed or who departed voluntarily to be paroled temporarily
into the United States to receive health care furnished by
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, which may include on a
case-by-case basis discretionary parole by the Secretary of
Homeland Security, clarifying that such parole is not an
admission, returning a paroled veteran to prior custody when
the purpose of parole has been served, and excluding
individuals inadmissible due to specified convictions for
crimes of violence or national security for which the
individual served a term of imprisonment of at least 5 years,
by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2026
through 2035.
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