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Maggie Goodlander: “Your department redacted key numbers that this committee, the Congress, and the American people as a whole…”

Featuring: Maggie Goodlander, Democratic | U.S. House New Hampshire, 2nd Congressional District

'Why Did You Redact This Document?: Goodlander Presses VA Official About Missing Cost Estimates

Published October 3, 2026

I said I'm going to go run it down and figure it out. And you commit to. To informing this committee why, in an extremely unusual move, Your department redacted key numbers that this committee, the Congress, and the American people as a whole deserve to know. Do you commit to. So I commit to explaining to us why that that happened. Absolutely. I commit to explaining to you why that happens. (03:05–03:14)

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Asserts that key numbers were redacted from a document that should be public.

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