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Dole and Burr Voted Against Veterans' Health Care
This week, as details about the deplorable conditions at hospitals responsible for helping our wounded soldiers continue to emerge, Republicans like Sens. Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr joined the chorus of outrage demanding to know how our government could have so severely failed them. But behind all the rhetoric is the harsh reality that, when they had a chance last year to provide funding for these facilities, Senators Dole and Burr chose to put party loyalty ahead of our brave men and women in uniform.

During the 109th Congress, Senators Dole and Burr voted FIVE times to block Democratic efforts to provide more resources to veterans and military health care. They voted against an additional $2.8 billion for veterans' medical care in FY2006, against pegging funding increases for the Veterans Administration to inflation and the demand for care, against establishing a $1 billion trust fund for improving health facilities, against closing corporate tax loopholes to fund an additional $1.5 billion for veterans' medical services in FY2007, and against a Democratic amendment that would have provided a mandatory five year funding stream of $104 billion for veterans' health care.

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