Lawmakers make pitch for Sussex Warren veterans clinic.

Sussex County’s two representatives in Congress met Thursday with a top official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, seeking support for opening a clinic in northwestern New Jersey.

U.S. Reps. Scott Garrett, of Wantage, and Rodney Frelinghuysen, of Harding, spoke behind closed doors on Capitol Hill with VA Under Secretary for Health David Shulkin.

Shulkin was president of Morristown Medical Center until last spring, when the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by President Obama to the VA post.

Read more: http://www.njherald.com/article/20160108/ARTICLE/301089976