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On the recordMarch 11, 1999
As the Administration and Congress develop budgets and policies for the new millennium, we urge them to look up from their balance sheets and into the faces of the men and women who risked their lives to defend our country.
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Bob Filner
Democratic · California

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Filner emphasizes the importance of considering veterans' needs in budget discussions.

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Jun 18, 2012

A year and a half and you did not know it. So you deserve high ranking for your leadership for that?

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Let's grant those claims. Forget the suffering. Forget all the presumptiveness. Forget all the studies.

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the system as Congressman Filner points out is incredibly complex and all of us who work with veterans' benefits, if we do not learn something new every day, then it is a day wasted.

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