[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7679]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-56. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of Maine relative to the Togus Veterans Affairs 
     Medical Center; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

                            Joint Resolution

       Whereas the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Togus, 
     Maine, is the oldest facility operated by the United States 
     Department of Veterans Affairs in the country, having been 
     operated in 1866; and
       Whereas the Togus Veterans Affairs Medical Center provides 
     general medical, surgical and mental health services to our 
     nation's veterans; and
       Whereas the Togus Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the 
     only United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
     center in Maine, a large and rural state; and
       Whereas the State of Maine has a large population of 
     military veterans, with more returning from Iraq, Afghanistan 
     and elsewhere around the globe every day; and
       Whereas a cut in funding for the Togus Veterans Affairs 
     Medical Center would be devastating to the medical center's 
     ability to provide basic health care services to our nation's 
     veterans: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That we, your memorialists, respectfully urge and 
     request that the United States Congress support the Togus 
     Veterans Affairs Medical Center as a vital resource in 
     serving our nation's military veterans and providing veterans 
     in Maine with much-needed and deserved health care services 
     accessible from all points in the State; and be it further
       Resolved, That suitable copies of this resolution, duly 
     authenticated by the Secretary of State, be transmitted to 
     the Honorable George W. Bush, President of the United States, 
     to the President of the Senate of the United States, to the 
     Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States 
     and to each Member of the Maine Congressional Delegation.

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