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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 2006-01-01 edition. Excerpt: ... Chairman. First, welcome again. I don't envy your position and I don't hold you responsible for this. I don't think it is your credibility at stake here. I'd like to follow up on Mr. Strickland's line of questioning because I think we need to get this on the record. I don't mean to put you on the hot seat but we are going to be revisiting this again. I just don't relish that idea. On July 14th, Joshua Bolten, who is the director of OMB, sent a letter requesting additional monies for the VA to the President. In that letter, he explained about the 2005 supplemental and then he talked about the 2006 budget amendment. When you add up the numbers of the $300 million expected to carry over and the $677 million increase, which I think is low balling it, but we will go with that number, for $100 million for the increase in the cost per patient, and another $600 million to correct for the estimated cost of long term care, which I think is probably ball park, we get to the 1.977, which is what Mr. Bolten recommends to the President to bring forward to the United States Congress. Your testimony today talks about the total needed for both years, comprising the 2005 supplemental request of 975 and the 2006 budget amendment of 1.977. Then you go onto say, as Mr. Strickland pointed out, these amounts assume enactment of the policies in the President's budget. Now, I think we are all pretty uniform in our belief and our knowledge that this has already been voted down. It's not going to be brought forward. If it's brought forward, it's going to be voted down. According to your oral testimony, we are going to need an additional billion in addition to the 1.977. Mr. Bolten, the director of OMB, who should know better, has proposed to the President
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