Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and independent agencies appropriations for fiscal year 2005 : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 5041/S. 2825, an act making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.