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On the recordJune 21, 2016
We want to--not only do we want to put in a system that works, we do not ever want to be in a situation where we grow to a 450,000-person backlog before we do it.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson stresses the importance of preventing a backlog in veterans' appeals.

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