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On the recordOctober 11, 2011
the Budget Control Act of 2011 will likely result in a substantial cut to the DOD base budget in FY 2012, perhaps as much as $26 billion.
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Silvestre Reyes
Texas

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Reyes warns about potential budget cuts to the Department of Defense.

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the issue of backlogs. And why there does not seem to be a strategy that is able to address what now repeatedly becomes the most frustrating part of a veteran's effort to try to get service from the VA.

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I believe that the results are being skewed because veterans do not want to go through those multiple pages.

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one concern that I also have is how skewed this funding request may be in favor of production of new manned rotorcraft as opposed to research and development of new rotorcraft for future use.

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I think this would be a great way to at least try to do that, and I don't understand why the VA wouldn't want to impart that authority or that responsibility to our VA directors.

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