the fact that help was a few feet away is deeply troubling.

We thank you for the opportunity to testify on this deeply troubling issue of the growing number of suicides amongst the veteran community.

Tonight's topic is the most important, most confounding, and the most heartbreaking one that we will discuss in this Committee.

Truly thanking veterans for their service means helping them when they need it most and rise above political opportunism to support veterans in crisis.

99.6 percent of veteran suicides are not occurring on our campuses.

That is a completely unacceptable situation, a horrible circumstance when you burden a veteran with the cost of their education benefits in this way.

So prohibiting that kind of pre-dispute arbitration with regard to Federal aid I think is one of the most important elements of the Borrower Defense rule, and that is threatened by this current administration that does not agree with that.

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We need to take that bill up to Senate heads today and pass it. It is so complicated and for the students, I don't know how they get through it.

So, 77 percent finish on time in what they started in whether it is a nursing assistant, welding, or whatever; 97 percent in Tennessee are placed in their career path, get a job; and 100 percent graduate with 0 debt.

Seven million empty jobs and very quick.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here and also thank you for being in Sevier County to unveil the new app for the FAFSA.

Well, I think it is something we definitely need to look into because an A does not mean, you know, anything.

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