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Don Nickles: Our resolution, to answer my colleague's question, has a $1.4 billion increase in VA care. It assumes an increase in…

On the recordMarch 9, 2004
Our resolution, to answer my colleague's question, has a $1.4 billion increase in VA care. It assumes an increase in VA--and it is mandatory--from $61 billion to $70 billion--a 14.3 percent increase, so my colleague will know.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Discussing funding increases for Veterans Affairs care.

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