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Clinton meets V.A.'s Principi (March 4, 2004) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., met Wednesday with Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi to discuss her concerns over V.A. hospitals in New York state, including one in Canandaigua. Clinton, in a news release, said that she was pleased with Principi’s commitment to consider her concerns about the transfer of psychiatric beds from the Canandaigua V.A. hospital. “With U.S. troops bravely serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, it sends exactly the wrong message to propose such drastic changes … without proper thought and deliberation,” Clinton said in the news release. An independent federal commission...