On the recordApril 10, 2003
First of all, when the budget resolution before us now left the committee, it provided for $30 billion in Veterans Administration cuts, as the gentleman well knows. Thirty billion dollars. It was reduced to $28 billion when it left the floor. When it comes out of conference and comes to us tonight, it is $6.2 billion less than current services over the next 10 years. And I say to the gentleman from New Jersey that this is $8.2 billion lower than the amount that our budget resolution provided when we had it on the floor and offered it as an alternative, $8.2 billion lower in this resolution today, and $6.2 billion below current services. This is a cut.
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