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(1) The primary responsibility of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs is to provide the best pos-
sible medical care to wounded veterans. 
(2) Since 2009, the Department has expended 
at least $420,000,000 on solar and wind renewable 
energy projects at facilities of the Department. 
(3) The wind power generation projects at fa-
cilities of the Department have been full of costly 
delays and expensive overages, thereby wasting mil-
lions of taxpayers’ dollars and distracting the De-
partment from accomplishing its primary responsi-
bility. 
(4) The current disability claims backlog and 
appointment wait times are an unacceptable national 
disgrace. 
(5) The Department should use all required re-
sources to ensure that all qualified veterans receive 
the best medical care available. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF ALTERNATIVE EN-
ERGY GENERATION PROJECTS OF DEPART-
MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
(a) APPROVAL REQUIRED.—No funds may be appro-
priated for any fiscal year, and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs may not obligate or expend funds, for any alter-
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native energy generation project unless funds for that 
project have been specifically authorized by law. 
(b) TRANSFER.—The Secretary shall transfer all un-
obligated funds appropriated to the Secretary before the 
date of the enactment of this Act for an alternative energy 
generation project to the ‘‘Medical Services’’ account of 
the Department to provide medical care to veterans in the 
health care system established under section 1705(a) of 
title 38, United States Code. 
(c) ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATION PROJECT 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘alternative energy 
generation project’’ means a project carried out under the 
administration of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
produce electrical or thermal energy if the primary energy 
source for the project is not oil, natural gas, coal, or nu-
clear power. 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5481 
To continue the use of a 3-month quarter EHR reporting period for health 
care providers to demonstrate meaningful use for 2015 under the Medi-
care and Medicaid EHR incentive payment programs, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 
Mrs. ELLMERS (for herself and Mr. MATHESON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To continue the use of a 3-month quarter EHR reporting 
period for health care providers to demonstrate meaning-
ful use for 2015 under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR 
incentive payment programs, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. CONTINUING USE OF 3-MONTH QUARTER EHR 
REPORTING PERIODS FOR PROFESSIONALS 
AND HOSPITALS TO DEMONSTRATE MEAN-
INGFUL USE FOR 2015 UNDER THE MEDICARE 
AND MEDICAID EHR INCENTIVE PAYMENT 
PROGRAMS. 
In specifying the EHR reporting period under part 
495 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes 
of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall continue 
through 2015 (in the case of eligible professionals) and 
fiscal year 2015 (in the case of eligible hospitals and crit-
ical access hospitals) to permit the use of a 3-month quar-
ter EHR reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use 
for purposes of such part, without regard to the payment 
year or the stage of meaningful use criteria involved. 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5483 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to continue the national security 
exemption from emissions regulations when an excess Department of 
Defense vehicle covered by the exemption is transferred to a firefighting 
agency in a State or to any other State agency. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 
Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas (for himself, Mr. HANNA, Mr. BRIDENSTINE, Mr. 
AMODEI, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. COTTON, Mr. REICHERT, Mrs. 
LUMMIS, and Mr. POMPEO) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to continue the 
national security exemption from emissions regulations 
when an excess Department of Defense vehicle covered 
by the exemption is transferred to a firefighting agency 
in a State or to any other State agency. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Firefighter Equipment 
Protection Act of 2014’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY EMIS-
SIONS EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE VEHICLE TRANSFERS. 
(a) CONTINUATION OF EMISSIONS EXEMPTION UPON 
TRANSFER.—Section 2576b of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing new subsection (d): 
‘‘(d) CONTINUATION
OF
EMISSIONS
EXEMPTION 
UPON TRANSFER.—Personal property transferred under 
the authority of this section or through the Federal Excess 
Personal Property (FEPP) program or the Firefighter 
Property program (FFP) that qualified for a national se-
curity exemption under section 89.908 of title 40, Code 
of Federal Regulations, shall maintain this exemption even 
after the personal property is transferred to a firefighting 
agency in a State or to another State agency.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (d) of section 
2576b of title 10, United States Code, as added by sub-
section (a)(2), shall apply to personal property described 
in such subsection (d) and transferred under such section 
or through the Federal Excess Personal Property program 
or the Firefighter Property program after July 1, 2014. 
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327 (108 Stat. 2300), including the cost of providing hos-
pital care and medical services under the amendments made
by section this title, not to exceed $17,250,000,000 for fiscal
year 1997 and not to exceed $17,900,000,000 for fiscal year
1998.
SEC. 106. ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION AND OPER-
ATION.
(a) ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS.—The Secretary of Veter-
ans Affairs shall establish information systems to assess the
experience of the Department of Veterans Affairs in imple-
menting sections 101, 103, and 104, including the amend-
ments made by those sections, during fiscal year 1997. The
Secretary shall establish those information systems in time
to include assessments under such systems in the report re-
quired under subsection (b).
(b) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 1998, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs
of the Senate and House of Representatives a report reflect-
ing the experience of the Department during fiscal year
1997 on—
(1) the effect of implementation of, and provision
and management of care under, sections 101, 103,
and 104 (including the amendments made by those
sections) on demand for health care services from the
Department of Veterans Affairs by veterans described
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in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 1710(a) of
title 38, United States Code, as amended by section
101;
(2) any differing patterns of demand on the part
of such veterans relating to such factors as relative
distance from Department facilities and prior experi-
ence, or lack of experience, as recipients of care from
the Department;
(3) the extent to which the Department has met
such demand for care; and
(4) changes in health-care delivery patterns in
Department facilities and the fiscal impact of such
changes.
(c) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report under
subsection (b) shall include detailed information with re-
spect to fiscal year 1997 regarding the following:
(1) The number of veterans enrolled for care at
each Department medical facility and, of such veter-
ans, the number enrolled at each such facility who
had not received care from the Department during the
preceding three fiscal years.
(2) With respect to the veterans who had not re-
ceived care from the Department during the three pre-
ceding fiscal years, the total cost of providing care to
such veterans, shown in total and separately (A) by
I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5488 
To require a review of the completeness of the Terrorist Screening Database 
(TSDB) maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the 
derivative terrorist watchlist utilized by the Transportation Security Ad-
ministration, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 
Ms. JACKSON LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require a review of the completeness of the Terrorist 
Screening Database (TSDB) maintained by the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation and the derivative terrorist 
watchlist utilized by the Transportation Security Admin-
istration, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Fly for Foreign 
Fighters Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REVIEW OF THE COMPLETENESS OF THE TER-
RORIST SCREENING DATABASE (TSDB) MAIN-
TAINED BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVES-
TIGATION AND THE DERIVATIVE TERRORIST 
WATCHLIST UTILIZED BY THE TRANSPOR-
TATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, 
acting through the Director of the Terrorist Screening 
Center, shall complete a review, in coordination with ap-
propriate representatives from the Department of Home-
land Security and all other relevant Federal agencies, of 
the completeness of the Terrorist Screening Database 
(TSDB) and the terrorist watchlist utilized by the Admin-
istrator of the Transportation Security Administration to 
determine if an individual who may seek to board a United 
States-bound flight or a domestic flight and who poses a 
threat to aviation or national security or a threat of ter-
rorism and who is known or suspected of being a member 
of a foreign terrorist organization is included in such 
Database and on such watchlist. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than ten days after the com-
pletion of the review under subsection (a), the Director 
of the Terrorist Screening Center shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
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of such review. 
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I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5489 
To provide for youth jobs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. NOR-
TON, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. RANGEL, and Ms. SEWELL of Ala-
bama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for youth jobs, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Employ Young Ameri-
cans Now Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF EMPLOY YOUNG AMERICANS 
FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Treasury of the United States an account that shall be 
known as the Employ Young Americans Fund (referred 
to in this Act as the ‘‘Fund’’). 
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(b) DEPOSITS
INTO
THE
FUND.—Out of any 
amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there 
is appropriated $5,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2015, 
which shall be paid to the Fund, to be used by the Sec-
retary of Labor to carry out this Act. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts avail-
able to the Fund under subsection (b), the Secretary of 
Labor shall— 
(1) allot $4,000,000,000 in accordance with 
section 3 to provide summer and year-round employ-
ment opportunities to low-income youth; and 
(2) award $1,500,000,000 in allotments and 
competitive grants in accordance with section 4 to 
local entities to carry out work-based training and 
other work-related and educational strategies and 
activities of demonstrated effectiveness to unem-
ployed, low-income young adults and low-income 
youth to provide the skills and assistance needed to 
obtain employment. 
(d) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—The amounts appro-
priated under this Act shall be available for obligation by 
the Secretary of Labor, and shall be available for expendi-
ture by grantees (including subgrantees), until expended. 
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‘‘§ 1705. Management of health care: patient enroll-
ment system
‘‘(a) In managing the provision of hospital care and
medical services under section 1710(a)(1) of this title, the
Secretary, in accordance with regulations the Secretary
shall prescribe, shall establish and operate a system of an-
nual patient enrollment. The Secretary shall manage the
enrollment of veterans in accordance with the following
priorities, in the order listed:
‘‘(1) Veterans with service-connected disabilities
rated 30 percent or greater.
‘‘(2) Veterans who are former prisoners of war
and veterans with service-connected disabilities rated
10 percent or 20 percent.
‘‘(3) Veterans who are in receipt of increased
pension based on a need of regular aid and attend-
ance or by reason of being permanently housebound
and other veterans who are catastrophically disabled.
‘‘(4) Veterans not covered by paragraphs (1)
through (3) who are unable to defray the expenses
of necessary care as determined under section
1722(a) of this title.
‘‘(5) All other veterans eligible for hospital care,
medical services, and nursing home care under sec-
tion 1710(a)(1) of this title.
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‘‘(b) In the design of an enrollment system under
subsection (a), the Secretary—
‘‘(1) shall ensure that the system will be man-
aged in a manner to ensure that the provision of
care to enrollees is timely and acceptable in quality;
‘‘(2) may establish additional priorities within
each priority group specified in subsection (a), as
the Secretary determines necessary; and
‘‘(3) may provide for exceptions to the specified
priorities where dictated by compelling medical rea-
sons.
‘‘§ 1706. Management of health care: other require-
ments
‘‘(a) In managing the provision of hospital care and
medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the
Secretary shall, to the extent feasible, design, establish
and manage health care programs in such a manner as
to promote cost-effective delivery of health care services
in the most clinically appropriate setting.
‘‘(b) In managing the provision of hospital care and
medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the
Secretary—
‘‘(1) may contract for hospital care and medical
services when Department facilities are not capable
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(5) The specific fiscal impact (shown in total
and by geographic health-care delivery areas) of
changes in delivery patterns instituted under the
amendments made by this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives July 30, 1996.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
(1) The United States and Mexico share a bor-
der of nearly 2,000 miles, a cultural heritage, and 
a desire to grow both economies through cooperation 
and hard work. 
(2) Border commerce is vital to the United 
States economy. Mexico is the United States third- 
largest trading partner, behind only Canada and 
China. In 2010, trade between the United States 
and Mexico reached $367,000,000,000, amounting 
to more than $1,000,000,000 per day. 
(3) Mexico is the second-largest export market 
for United States businesses and approximately 22 
States depend on Mexico as their number one or two 
trading partner. 
(4) The growth of international trade has out-
paced United States land ports of entry’s workload 
capacity, resulting in congestion and delays. This in-
creased congestion hurts businesses that rely on safe 
and efficient cross-border traffic. 
SEC. 3. UNITED STATES-MEXICO ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP 
COMMISSION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established an inde-
pendent commission to be known as the United 
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States-Mexico Economic Partnership Commission 
(referred to in this section as the ‘‘Commission’’). 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Commis-
sion are to— 
(A) study the overall economic strategies, 
programs, and policies of Federal departments 
and agencies along the United States-Mexico 
border, including the Department of Homeland 
Security, the Department of Commerce, and 
other relevant departments and agencies; 
(B) strengthen relations and collaboration 
between communities along the United States- 
Mexico border and the Department of Home-
land Security, the Department of Commerce, 
and other Federal departments and agencies 
that carry out such strategies, programs, and 
policies; and 
(C) make recommendations to the Presi-
dent and Congress with respect to such strate-
gies, programs, and policies. 
(3) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(A) VOTING MEMBERS.—The Commission 
shall be composed of 16 voting members. The 
Governors of the States of Arizona, California, 
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New Mexico, and Texas shall each appoint four 
such members, of whom— 
(i) one shall be a local elected official 
from each such State’s border region; 
(ii) one shall be an individual from 
academia or a community leader of each 
such State; and 
(iii) two shall be from each such 
State’s border region business community. 
(B) NONVOTING MEMBERS.—The Commis-
sion shall be composed of two nonvoting mem-
bers, of whom— 
(i) one shall be appointed by the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security; and 
(ii) one shall be appointed by the Sec-
retary of Commerce. 
(4) QUALIFICATIONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Members of the Com-
mission shall be— 
(i) individuals with expertise in migra-
tion, border enforcement and protection, 
civil and human rights, community rela-
tions, cross-border trade and commerce, or 
other pertinent qualifications or experience; 
and 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT THE COMMODITY FUTURES 
TRADING COMMISSION IMPOSE FEES AND AS-
SESSMENTS TO RECOVER THE COST OF AP-
PROPRIATIONS TO THE COMMISSION. 
Section 12 of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 
16) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) RECOVERY OF COSTS OF ANNUAL APPROPRIA-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IMPOSITION OF FEES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (C), the Commission shall, by 
order, impose a fee on each agreement, con-
tract, or transaction that is a contract of sale 
of a commodity for future delivery, an option, 
or a swap, including an agreement, contract, or 
transaction transacted through the use of a for-
eign terminal, so that the total of the fees so 
imposed during each fiscal year is sufficient to 
recover the costs to the Government of the an-
nual appropriation to the Commission by Con-
gress for the fiscal year. 
‘‘(B) FOREIGN
TERMINAL.—In subpara-
graph (A), the term ‘foreign terminal’ means a 
technology, software, or device, which is located 
in the United States and used to execute an 
agreement, contract, or transaction on a foreign 
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‘‘(5) All other veterans eligible for hospital care,
medical services, and nursing home care under sec-
tion 1710(a)(1) of this title.
‘‘(b) In the design of an enrollment system under
subsection (a), the Secretary—
‘‘(1) shall ensure that the system will be man-
aged in a manner to ensure that the provision of
care to enrollees is timely and acceptable in quality;
‘‘(2) may establish additional priorities within
each priority group specified in subsection (a), as
the Secretary determines necessary; and
‘‘(3) may provide for exceptions to the specified
priorities where dictated by compelling medical rea-
sons.
‘‘§ 1706. Management of health care: other require-
ments
‘‘(a) In managing the provision of hospital care and
medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the
Secretary shall, to the extent feasible, design, establish
and manage health care programs in such a manner as
to promote cost-effective delivery of health care services
in the most clinically appropriate setting.
‘‘(b) In managing the provision of hospital care and
medical services under section 1710(a) of this title, the
Secretary—