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On the recordOctober 5, 2015
the goal here is to go beyond meeting the immediate, as you say, the urgent apparent need that may be on the streets right now, but to provide a more permanent solution, and that is the goal here, an equally difficult goal, but one that I think we have an obligation to solve.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the need for long-term solutions to veteran homelessness.

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