[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    DAVID F. WINDER DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY BASED 
                           OUTPATIENT CLINIC

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Veterans 
Affairs Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 3238 
and that the Senate proceed to its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3238) to designate the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs community based outpatient clinic in Mansfield, Ohio, 
     as the David F. Winder Department of Veterans Affairs 
     Community Based Outpatient Clinic, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read the third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon 
the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any 
statements related to the measure be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 3238) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 3238

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) David F. Winder, was born on August 10, 1946, in 
     Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
       (2) David F. Winder served as a Private First Class in the 
     United States Army, enlisting in Columbus, Ohio, in 1968. His 
     service in the Army ended in May 1970.
       (3) David F. Winder was awarded the Medal of Honor, the 
     highest honor in the United States awarded for valor to 
     members of the Armed Forces, for his actions during the 
     ambush of his company, on May 13, 1970, in the Republic of 
     Vietnam for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk 
     of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a senior 
     medical aidman with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry 
     Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division.
       (4) Unarmed, PFC Winder proceeded to crawl over 100 meters 
     of open, bullet swept terrain to treat the 2 different 
     wounded soldiers while suffering 2 serious wounds himself in 
     the process. He was mortally wounded for the third and final 
     time when closing to within 30 feet of a third soldier.
       (5) PFC Winder was laid to rest in Mansfield Memorial Park.

     SEC. 2. DAVID F. WINDER DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
                   COMMUNITY BASED OUTPATIENT CLINIC.

       (a) Designation.--The Department of Veterans Affairs 
     community based outpatient clinic located in Mansfield, Ohio, 
     shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known 
     and designated as the ``David F. Winder Department of 
     Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs community based outpatient 
     clinic referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the David F. Winder Department of Veterans 
     Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic.

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