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Richard Blumenthal: “Nothing we say here is to imply that this backlog is the result of any sort of malevolence or personal animus on the…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2013
Nothing we say here is to imply that this backlog is the result of any sort of malevolence or personal animus on the part of anybody at VA.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes that the backlog is not due to malice but a shared challenge.

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