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On the recordJuly 17, 1998
frankly, I am not aware of this problem, but I sincerely appreciate the Senator from Connecticut raising it because it sounds like a very serious problem. I can assure the Senator, our staffs and we will work with the Senator to try to get to the bottom of this because we want to maintain the highest caliber professional service to our veterans in the VA system. I am not prepared to say anything about how it is occurring or why, but I assure the Senator we appreciate his bringing it up and we will look into it and work on it. Perhaps in conference we can take some action.
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Julian Bond
Alabama
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Addressing concerns about issues within the VA system raised by a fellow Senator.

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