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Cliff Stearns: “I urge the gentleman not to dismantle a system that is working for the veterans in this country. I also note that the VA…”

On the recordJune 21, 2000
I urge the gentleman not to dismantle a system that is working for the veterans in this country. I also note that the VA maintains a reserve fund to handle the kind of problems that the gentleman has raised... For those areas of the country that have legitimate funding problems, there is this safety mechanism with the reserve fund. We need not and should not, I say to my colleagues, take the extreme step that the gentleman proposes. Adopting the Hinchey amendment would hurt veterans all across this country. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida
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Opposing an amendment related to veterans' funding during a House debate.

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