06/15/2011
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"I think we have put the Secretary in a very difficult position and I think he has done the right thing."
"[VA has] just restarted a long term study of Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange. It is a study that continued up until about 2000, and then for lack of emphasis, it lost priority. [VA has] just restart..."
"That is the moral responsibility that we have, which I think is what we are talking about today."
"What we are talking about today is the ongoing cost of war."