03/09/2011
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"For veterans to have a choice and for the VA to compete to provide services to veterans is an important thing."
"I think the VA has been really short in taking advantage of that opportunity."
"last year, I asked you at this same hearing about the hospital at Fort Leonard Wood, which you said was still the number one construction priority on the Army side for healthcare."
"It is clear to me the VA, if they wanted to, could clarify that just as easily as they could decide what the 40 miles was intended to meet."