02/12/2013
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"Okay, and I am going to be very brief with this because I think this is a slam dunk."
"This is absolutely your subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, but this may be something that we could have a hearing on to talk about the proposals and the ups and the downs."
"I wrote to Secretary Hagel after the DOD inspector-general-issued report revealing that the DOD was taking entirely way too long to transmit complete records to the VA."
"These efforts have reduced the backlog from 611,000 in March 2013 to 215,000 claims as of today."