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On the recordNovember 13, 2012
I ask unanimous consent that the Veterans' Affairs Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4114 and that the Senate proceed to its consideration. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 4114) to increase, effective as of December 1, 2012, the rates of compensation for veterans with service- connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 13, 2012

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