S.Amdt. 2079

SA 2079. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1717 proposed by Mr. Graham to the concurrent resolution
H. Con. Res. 14, establishing the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PUTTING
VETERANS FIRST.

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
strengthening the provision of health care, benefits, and
services to veterans and their caregivers and survivors and
beneficiaries through the Department of Veterans Affairs,
which may include legislation that supports veteran choice
and the ability of veterans to seek health care outside of
the Department direct care system from Department community
care partners, or improves the accessibility of mental health
and substance use disorder services to high-risk veteran
patients, or prevents the Department from automatically
sending the names of veterans who have been appointed a
fiduciary to help manage their Department benefits to the
Department of Justice for inclusion in the National Instant
Criminal Background Checks System, or makes it easier for the
Department to hold poor performing employees accountable, or
ensures the timely adjudication and quality of disability
claims and appeals, or protects benefits for the surviving
family members of certain members of the Armed Forces and
veterans, or strengthens the Department of Veterans Affairs
workforce by reducing the time to hire and onboard employees,
improving the recruitment and retention of veterans and
military family member at the Department, and ensuring the
Department has the staffing levels needed to deliver high
quality, accessible, and timely health care, benefits, and
other services through the creation of a long-term human
capital plan based on current and future projected demand for
benefits and services, 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 2025 through 2034.
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