I strongly urge this committee to heed the testimony of Ms. Heather French, Miss America 2000, and allocate $750,000 from the HUD fiscal year 2001 appropriation to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans to provide technical assistance to homeless providers.
Filner urges funding for homeless veterans' programs.
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If I had a person here waiting for six month, a year, or 30 years for a rating, what you are saying does not mean anything.
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.
If someone of my constituents is sitting here who has waited three years for a claim adjustment and heard your statement, they would throw up.
If you are given amputation, why should you wait three years for all the other parts of your claim to be adjudicated?
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