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relevance of this bill that the president is signing today. reporter: well, interestingly the veteran s affairs secretary there, shulkin, was a holdover from the obama administration. he worked at a level lower than the secretary level, but this is in fact, the president looking for continuity from the obama era to now to deal with this. and there was legislation done during the obama era, but this is also looking to sort of expand that and to try to deal with issues that relate to if there are identified to be problem employees at the va where they go through an adjudication process. it has been very frustrating to lawmakers and others that sometimes that has not been able to result in a firing when warranted. obviously, there are two sides to all of that. this is going to in part, try to make certain there s greater accountability, also to give greater access to using va benefits in a closer range to one s home. this is the kind of thing that is very expensive, very

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