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Bob Menendez: I wonder, how is it that with the wide array of programs you both described, that we have 131,000 homeless veterans?

On the recordNovember 9, 2009
I wonder, how is it that with the wide array of programs you both described, that we have 131,000 homeless veterans?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions the effectiveness of existing programs in reducing veteran homelessness.

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