To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

This bill would create an Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs within the Department of Veterans Affairs to act as the main contact between the Department and Congress. The office would be led by an Assistant Secretary appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with one politically appointed deputy handling legislative positions and one career deputy handling the production and delivery of materials to Congress. At least 65 percent of the office's full-time staff would have to be career employees. The bill sets deadlines for answering information requests from the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees, bars Department staff from withholding or altering requested information, and pauses the office's salary and expense funding when the Department misses those deadlines, except for work needed to comply.

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• Keith Self Republican sponsor
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