Excerpt from Fiscal Year 1995 Department of Veterans Affairs Budget: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session; February 10, 1994 Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I want to welcome you to the commit tee. This is the third time ih 10 days that you have been before us. I want to thank you for giving us this opportunity. The budget for veterans programs which you are presenting to us this year is a very tight one. We knew it would be. These are tough economic times, and everyone wants to get the country's fi manciel house back in order. We are fully aware that the VA and all other government agencies must participate in deficit reduction. Veterans, Mr. Secretary, only ask that they be treated fairly in the process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.