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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., co-authored a $17 billion plan to overhaul the way the nation’s veterans obtain medical care, including a $10 billion provision to privatize services to help shorten long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)
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Lawmakers unveil $17 billion bill to reform Veterans Affairs

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The chairs of the Veterans Affairs committee have reached a deal on legislation to reform the embattled agency and will introduce the bill this afternoon on Capitol Hill.

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for July 28

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Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, right, speaks with House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller during a meeting of the Senate-House Veterans Affairs Conference Committee June 24, 2014 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Healthcare

Lawmakers reach accord on Veterans Affairs bill

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 24, 2014, on the Veterans Administration. The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing new proposals to fix a veterans health care program scandalized by long waits and falsified records covering up the delays. (AP Photo)
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House, Senate chairs offer competing bills on VA

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Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert McDonald of Ohio flanked by Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, right, listen during a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearings to examine his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo)
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Sanders pleads for VA reform bill as talks stall

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Don Parker, right, waits with his father, Harley Parker, center, a World War II veteran, on Tuesday as they wait their turn to speak with someone at a health care crisis center set up at the American Legion Post 1 hall in Phoenix. The FBI revealed on Wednesday that it had opened a criminal investigation into a Department of Veterans Affairs reeling from allegations of falsified records and inappropriate scheduling practices. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Senate passes bill aimed at cutting wait times for VA patients

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Visitors leave the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis on Monday. An audit of VA hospitals and clinics nationwide has found that nearly 275 Indiana patients are still waiting for initial appointments at facilities in Indianapolis and northern Indiana 90 days or more after requesting them. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Prosecutions, firings needed to root out corruption at Department of Veterans Affairs, IG testifies

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Jeff Miller, the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, is burrowed in his office, across the street from the Capitol, plotting the next several months of his aggressive strategy to get to the bottom of a national scandal that has enveloped the Department of Veterans Affairs. (AP Photo)
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The Florida Republican who is Veterans Affairs’ worst nightmare

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Surrounded by veterans and GOP House members, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., left, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, finishes a statement calling for reforms in the wake of gross mismanagement and misconduct at VA hospitals, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May, 29, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Jeff Miller wants Veterans Affairs’ ‘official time’ employees doing union work back on their regular jobs

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Veterans Affairs hospitals don’t have enough doctors
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Veterans Affairs hospitals don’t have enough doctors

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