07/22/2009
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"Chairman Akaka, we were pleased that in September of last year you introduced legislation--S. 3527, the 'Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act'--that would reform the VA budget process by providing ..."
"Chairman Akaka, we were pleased that during the 110th Congress you introduced legislation, the Veterans' Health Care Budget Reform Act, S. 3527, that would reform the VA budget process by providing ad..."
"By moving to advance appropriations, veterans' health care programs would accrue all three of these benefits."
"The postal reform bill we passed in 2006 intended to make the Postal Service operate even more like a business, as we have said, and be independent of any Federal funding."