02/03/2009
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"We have passed historic and unprecedented increases in V.A. funding."
"Indian Country needs your help to provide health, education, and welfare for our membership."
"given that slowdown in construction and in some parts of the country, reductions in the natural cost of construction, this might be a good time to make the investments in modernizing our DOD hospital ..."
"Let me say, as chairman of the Military Construction Committee, the modernization of our DOD hospital system was shamefully ignored for many, many years through Democratic and Republican administratio..."