[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11461-11462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  ENSURING VETERAN ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION IN STRATEGIC SOURCING ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question on 
suspending the rules and passing the bill (H.R. 2781) to direct the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certify the sufficient participation 
of small business concerns owned and controlled and

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owned by veterans and small business concerns owned by veterans with 
service-connected disabilities in contracts under the Federal Strategic 
Sourcing Initiative, and for other purposes, as amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe) that the House suspend the rules and 
pass the bill, as amended.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the 
rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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