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News -01-31-06 Failed Services for Wounded Soldiers (ABC News - Nightline) "A study commissioned by the First Infantry Division estimated that eight out of 10 of its wounded soldiers from Iraq have gone through the same or a similar ordeal [of paycheck mixups]." 02-06 Papers -02-06-05 Bush Proposes Cuts in Veterans Administration for 2006 Budget (CNN News) "In all, the president proposed $137 billion less over the next 10 years than previously forecast for mandatory programs with much of that occurring in reductions in Medicaid, the big federal-state program that provides health care for the poor, and in payments the Veterans Administration makes for health care." "Many of the spending cuts in the plan are repeats of efforts the administration has proposed and Congress has rejected previously." "Democrats complained that Bush was resorting to draconian cuts that would hurt the needy in order to protect his first term tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy." 1-05