IA 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 72 
Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits for fiscal year 2014, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 1, 2013 
Mr. CULBERSON introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Appropriations 
OCTOBER 1, 2013 
Considered under suspension of the rules and failed of passage 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits for 
fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for veterans benefits for fiscal year 2014, and 
for other purposes, namely: 
SEC. 101. (a) Amounts are provided for entitlements 
and other mandatory payments whose budget authority 
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was provided in the Military Construction and Veterans 
Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 
(division E of Public Law 113–6), to continue activities 
at the rate to maintain program levels under current law, 
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2013, to be contin-
ued through the date specified in section 103(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 103, obligations for man-
datory payments due on or about the first day of any 
month that begins after October 2013 but not later than 
30 days after the date specified in section 103(3) may con-
tinue to be made, and funds shall be available for such 
payments. 
SEC. 102. Amounts are provided for ‘‘Department of 
Veterans Affairs—Departmental Administration—Gen-
eral Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administra-
tion’’ at a rate for operations of $2,455,490,000: Provided, 
That such amount shall be made available subject to the 
authority and conditions as provided under the Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of Public Law 113– 
6) and shall be available to the extent and in the manner 
that would be provided by such Act. 
SEC. 103. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint 
resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal 
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year 2014, appropriations and funds made available and 
authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall 
be available until whichever of the following first occurs: 
(1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any 
project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) 
the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations 
Act for fiscal year 2014 without any provision for such 
project or activity; or (3) December 15, 2013. 
SEC. 104. It is the sense of Congress that this joint 
resolution may also be referred to as the ‘‘Honoring Our 
Promise to America’s Veterans Act’’. 
This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans 
Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’’. 
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