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Mike Bost: “If VA doesn't use its authority on its own initiative, Congress will begin to take steps.”

On the recordJuly 12, 2017
If VA doesn't use its authority on its own initiative, Congress will begin to take steps.
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Mike Bost
Republican · Illinois

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Bost warns that Congress will intervene if the VA fails to act decisively.

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