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On the recordJuly 18, 2017
If my math is correct you have 700 lawyers. That gets you to 118,000 cases that would be completed once this new standard is implemented.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii
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Hirono discusses the backlog of cases at the Veterans' Appeals Board.

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