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The VA is not meeting all the needs, otherwise the suicide rate would not be 20 a day and staying there.

I want to thank the Chairman for bringing this bill forward, and hopefully we can get this thing done and out of here by Christmas.

Since this bill was introduced in the House on June 26th, so 148 or so days ago, 2,960 service members and veterans have died by suicide.

This is not about who got asked what. This is about preventing--helping prevent veteran suicide and finding those veterans out there who have not been able to get into the VA, and then get them in to where they can get care.

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.

This is highly inappropriate. I think--and you seem to be very proud of the fact that your office has been engaged in this sort of stuff, and this way of operating.

We have to start doing something differently.

We have to reach out and try to find those 14 who never get to the VA, never get the care.

There are precious few things Elizabeth Warren and I agree on, but we are both co-sponsors of the Improve Act.

This legislation has brought together conservatives. It has brought together liberals. It has brought together moderates on both sides of the House.