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Jason Altmire: “I can't think of a group that we should be helping more than our Nation's veterans. And to have a budget submitted to us…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2008
I can't think of a group that we should be helping more than our Nation's veterans. And to have a budget submitted to us at a time when all of us can agree that there is nothing more important than taking care of the people who are putting their lives on the line for us, wearing the uniform of the United States every single day, making every possible sacrifice, and to have a budget submitted to us that slashes funding for veterans programs is an offense. It literally is an offense.
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Jason Altmire
Pennsylvania

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Addressing budget cuts to veterans programs during a floor speech.

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