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On the recordJune 8, 2009
We have a hard time figuring out why people from VISN 8 to VISN 1 and 2 are telling us that they have a really tight budget this year when we got a 12-percent increase in the veterans' health care budget.
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Michael Michaud
Maine

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Michaud questions budget discrepancies despite a significant increase in veterans' health care funding.

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