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Gillespie Montgomery: “Every day I have Members come up to me and complain about the service that the veterans are receiving in their veterans…”

On the recordApril 26, 1994
Every day I have Members come up to me and complain about the service that the veterans are receiving in their veterans hospitals... a cut of 25,000 employees would be devastating to the veterans hospitals; 5,000 jobs would be lost in 1995. We will have to close some more veterans wards. I hope we do not have to close any veterans hospitals. But we just cannot operate with that type of reduction. That is why we brought the bill up here today, trying to help out these old veterans. Again, I want to quote from Vice President Gore's ``Report of the National Performance Review,'' which includes statements that I think would be of interest. The Vice President's report says, and I quote, ``We need to use budgets rather than FTE controls to drive our downsizing.
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Gillespie Montgomery
Democratic · Mississippi
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Addressing concerns about veterans' services and potential job cuts in veterans hospitals.

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