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Derrick Van Orden: What you are doing is preventing them from killing themselves and becoming homeless and drug addicts and alcoholics.

On the recordMay 16, 2023
What you are doing is preventing them from killing themselves and becoming homeless and drug addicts and alcoholics.
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Derrick Van Orden
Republican · Wisconsin

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Van Orden highlights the importance of transition programs for veterans' mental health.

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