Mark Warner: “I will conclude just with this observation of our very able staff director, Les Brownlee, who just handed me a note…”

“I will conclude just with this observation of our very able staff director, Les Brownlee, who just handed me a note which indicates that the VA increase in the Senate budget process--that is, the account for the committee on veterans here in the Senate--for the fiscal year 1997 to 1998 was a 12.2 percent increase in your budget, and the DOD increase was less than 2.2 percent. So that is a fairly significant increase that this communication indicates to me and that your committee got.”