02/26/2013
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"I represent the district that has the Mayo Clinic, how would an organization like that do this as opposed to the VA?"
"This issue of the claims backlog, it is corrosive, it is wrong. It wears at the soul of this country."
"Congress needs to do more to bolster VA's current efforts to modernize its operations and promote further improvements."
"Our goal, and this is very, simple: uphold the promise we made to our veterans by ending the backlog and getting the benefits they earned."