Excerpt from Fiscal Year 1994 Department of Veterans Affairs Budget: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; March 30, 1993 and April 20, 1993 The chairman. I would like to thank our witnesses this morn ing. For the members, you have a summary of the recommendations of this Independent Budget done by the four veterans' organiza tions, and then you have the Independent Budget. It is all very well done. I have a comment or two I want to make. It was excellent testi mony. In your statement I read last night that there would be cuts in staffing for VA medical care and adjudication of claims. The President has yet to announce all of the details of his budget. The administration's economic plan assumes a number of government wide initiatives to keep discretionary spending relatively constant. The plan assumes savings from a 1-year freeze on Federal salaries and other efficiencies from streamlining policies. These policies can reduce the increases that would otherwise be needed to keep service levels for veterans programs at acceptable levels. However, within the overall freeze on discretionary spend ing there is some leeway to increase funding for high priority pro grams, and I believe that the President will provide additional funds for veterans medical programs and to deal with the growing backlog in processing claims for veterans benefits. 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.