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On the recordDecember 17, 2021
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged and the Senate now proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 1760. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1760) to designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs planned to be built in Oahu, Hawaii, as the ``Daniel Kahikina Akaka Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic''. There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the Senate proceeded to consider the measure.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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