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bureaucratic mismanagement and continuous failure 
to provide veterans timely access to health care. 
(2) Since 2003, VA disability compensation and 
health care have been added to the Government Ac-
countability Office’s (GAO) ‘‘high-risk’’ list, due to 
mismanagement and oversight failures, lack of a 
‘‘unified vision, strategy, or set of goals to guide 
their outcomes,’’ and the inability to ensure allo-
cated resources are used in a cost-effective and effi-
cient way to improve veterans’ health care access. 
(3) The VA’s failure to provide timely and ac-
cessible health care to America’s veterans is unac-
ceptable. While Congress has done its part for more 
than a decade by providing sufficient funding for the 
VA, the agency has mismanaged these resources, re-
sulting in proven adverse effects on veterans and 
their families. 
(b) POLICY ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that 
the House should require the VA to conduct an audit of 
its programs named on GAO’s ‘‘high-risk’’ list and report 
its findings to the Committee on Appropriations, the Com-
mittee on the Budget, and the Committee on Veterans Af-
fairs of the House of Representatives. 
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SEC. 523. POLICY STATEMENT ON MOVING THE UNITED 
STATES POSTAL SERVICE ON BUDGET. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) The President’s Commission on Budget 
Concepts recommends that the budget should, as a 
general rule, be comprehensive of the full range of 
Federal activity. 
(2) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 
(Public Law 101–239) moved the United States 
Postal Service (USPS) off budget and exempted it 
from sequestration. 
(3) The USPS has a direct effect on the fiscal 
posture of the Federal Government, through— 
(A) the receipt of direct appropriations of 
$35 million in fiscal year 2017; 
(B) congressional mandates such as re-
quirements for mail delivery service schedules; 
(C) incurring $15 billion in debt from the 
Treasury, the maximum permitted by law; 
(D) continued operating deficits since 
2007; 
(E) defaulting on its statutory obligation 
to prefund health care benefits for future retir-
ees; and 
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(F) carrying $119 billion in total unfunded 
liabilities with no foreseeable pathway of fund-
ing these liabilities under current law. 
(b) POLICY ON MOVING THE USPS ON BUDGET.— 
It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that all re-
ceipts and disbursements of the USPS should be included 
in the congressional budget and the budget of the Federal 
Government. 
SEC. 524. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE JUDGMENT FUND. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) The Judgment Fund (Fund), established in 
1956, was created to pay judgments and settlements 
of lawsuits against the Federal Government. 
(2) As a result of the Fund’s design, it is ripe 
for executive branch exploitation. The Obama Ad-
ministration used the Fund to make billions of dol-
lars in payments to Federal agencies and foreign en-
tities. For example— 
(A) on January 17, 2016, the State De-
partment announced the Federal Government 
agreed to pay the Iranian government $1.7 bil-
lion to settle a case related to the sale of mili-
tary equipment prior to the Iranian revolution, 
of which $1.3 billion was sourced through the 
Fund, without prior congressional notification; 
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the Obama Administration’s use of the Fund to 
make this and other payments raises serious 
concerns by sidestepping Congress; and 
(B) in 2016, the Department of Health 
and Human Services announced its intentions 
to use the Fund for settlements with health in-
surers who sued the Federal Government over 
the loss of funds for risk corridors under the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 
(3) Failing to address the lack of oversight over 
the Fund annually costs taxpayers billions of dollars, 
as payments exceeded $4.6 billion in 2016 and more 
than $26 billion in the preceding 10 year period. 
(b) POLICY ON JUDGMENT FUND.—It is the policy 
of this concurrent resolution that the House should con-
sider legislation that reclaims Congress’s power of the 
purse over the Fund. Such legislation should— 
(1) prohibit interest payments paid from the 
Fund for accounts or assets frozen by the Federal 
Government and listed on— 
(A) the Sanctions Programs list of the Of-
fice of Foreign Asset Control of the Depart-
ment of Treasury; or 
(B) Sponsors of Terrorism list of the De-
partment of State; 
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(2) amend sections 2414 and 1304 of titles 28 
and 31, United States Code, respectively, to— 
(A) provide a clear definition and expla-
nation of a ‘‘foreign court or tribunal’’; and 
(B) 
require 
congressional 
notification 
whenever the Fund makes a settlement or court 
ordered lump sum or aggregated payment ex-
ceeding $500 million; and 
(3) require legislative action to approve pay-
ments from the Fund in excess of a specified thresh-
old, increase transparency, and require Federal 
agencies to reimburse the Fund over a fixed time pe-
riod. 
SEC. 525. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARD-
SHIP OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that significant 
savings were achieved by the House by consolidating oper-
ations and renegotiating contracts. 
(b) POLICY
ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP
OF 
TAXPAYER DOLLARS.—It is the policy of this concurrent 
resolution that— 
(1) the House should be a model for the respon-
sible stewardship of taxpayer resources, and identify 
any savings that can be achieved through greater 
productivity and efficiency gains in the operation 
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