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Cliff Stearns: “What the gentleman is proposing is to roll back VERA, which was passed last year, which made an allocation on funds…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1998
What the gentleman is proposing is to roll back VERA, which was passed last year, which made an allocation on funds based upon population. As the gentleman knows, there has been many, many years with the population, particularly the veterans who have been moving to the Sun Belt. As the gentleman knows, lots of hospitals have given back money that they could not even use. So the VERA allocation was worked out in the Senate and the House after strong long deliberations.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida
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Discussing the implications of rolling back the VERA funding allocation for veterans.

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