Establishes an Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs within the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve as its main liaison with Congress, with set deadlines for answering committee information requests.

• Creates the office, headed by an Assistant Secretary appointed by the President with Senate consent, and requires at least 65 percent of its full-time staff to be career employees.
• Requires the Department to acknowledge committee requests within two business days, provide a production plan within five business days, and produce requested records within 45 days, with extensions available if the Secretary certifies the request is too complex.
• Bars Department officials from withholding, altering, or delaying responsive information for political review, and requires committee requests to be answered with original source documents rather than summaries.
• Requires written notice and a corrective action plan when deadlines are missed, limits spending of the office's salary and expense funds until compliance is restored, and directs the Inspector General to review the cause of the delay.

• Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
• Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee

Armed Forces and National Security