CLEAR COMMUNICATION FOR VETERANS CLAIMS ACT

On 2025-04-07, Representative Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13) delivered a floor speech titled "CLEAR COMMUNICATION FOR VETERANS CLAIMS ACT" in the House.

CLEAR COMMUNICATION FOR VETERANS CLAIMS ACT

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025)] [House] [Pages H1442-H1443] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CLEAR COMMUNICATION FOR VETERANS CLAIMS ACT The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1039) to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center for an assessment of notice letters that the Secretary sends to claimants for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Bost) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 412, nays 0, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 90] YEAS--412 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Bacon Baird Balderson Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Brecheen Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burchett Burlison Bynum Calvert Cammack Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Collins Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Fields Figures Fine Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Gottheimer Graves Gray Green (TN) Green, Al (TX) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Lynch Mace Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Mann Mannion Massie Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Meeks Menendez Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Onder Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Perry Peters Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Roy Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon [[Page H1443]] Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spartz Stansbury Stanton Stauber Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Strong Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NOT VOTING--21 Babin Carter (GA) Comer Connolly Fong Hunt James Kennedy (UT) Kiggans (VA) Maloy Messmer Norcross Ogles Owens Pettersen Pfluger Sherrill Stefanik Stutzman Swalwell Thanedar {time} 1902 So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. THANEDAR. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 89 and YEA on Roll Call No. 90. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR1039, HR1039