Sen. Patty Murray and Sen. Bernard Sanders Hold a News Teleconference On Veterans

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Sen. Patty Murray and Sen. Bernard Sanders Hold a News Teleconference On Veterans

SENS. MURRAY AND SANDERS HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON VETERANS

DECEMBER 4, 2007

SPEAKERS: SEN. PATTY MURRAY, D-WASH.

SEN. BERNARD SANDERS, I-VT.

[*] MURRAY: Well, thank you for joining us. Clearly tomorrow is a very important day for our Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. General Peake is going to come before us. He's been nominated by the president to head up the V.A. at a very, very critical time for our nation. We all believe in our Democratic Caucus -- and I think in our country, really -- that caring for our veterans is not an option; it's a moral obligation.

As I travel around and talk to people everywhere, they believe that at this time, no matter how they feel about the war -- whether they've supported, or not supported it -- they believe strongly that caring for our veterans has to be a number one priority for this nation.

So we've all watched in horror over the last number of years since the war in Iraq started, as our troops came home and ended up in long waiting lines to ge...

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