On the recordMarch 15, 1995
The fact is that our veterans programs involve approximately $38 billion of spending across the country. Many of us are concerned that within those medical services, many of our veterans are disserved. they receive inefficient service, they stand in lines, they are not being treated in those programs the way they should. The only way to get above that is to shake the programs at their foundation. So all we did out of a $38 billion program was to suggest a cut of $200 million so that we could take it to conference to discuss these programs further. It was clearly the intent of the committee to review those programs in depth. It is about time the new minority recognized that these programs have not worked nearly as well as they should in the past. And that was the reason, to take the programs to conference and evaluate how we can do the job better.
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