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We want to make this easier for veterans to access private sector services when they need it, when it is the best thing for them.

As you know, coming from a provider background, I strongly believe people deserve to get paid when they deliver a service, and we have failed many of our providers in terms of that.

Our job to do the best thing for the veteran.

I ask for your steadfast support in funding our full FY 2019 and FY 2020 AA budget requests.

Veterans come first, absolutely.

But it's the context in light of everything that's happened since he's become president and, again, his disregard for the threat posed by Russia, which in that context, you know, recent events in the U.K. -- I thought made it particularly…

I mean, the president, you know, his word carries huge weight. So, if he is the leader in terms of educating the public about what the Russians are doing, that carries a lot of weight.

What's needed, though, is across the government approach and some leadership and direction, and importantly a sense of urgency across the entire government, and for that matter, across society.

I certainly don't agree with it. It's kind of ironic after his complaints about rigged elections during the campaign.

I think that this has been a mystery about why -- and I'm speaking of the President personally here -- why the singular almost aggressive indifference to the threat that Putin represents, who is bent on undermining this country and…

We think that VA offers tremendous training opportunities, and, frankly, it is in our interest to train these students.

It just simply couldn't work by turning on a switch and privatizing it.

Delays, as you know, can prevent a veteran who may be ready to confront addiction from actually seeking treatment.

There is no pressure to privatize. There is pressure to fix the system.

Since April of 2017, I think this is a very much better environment for our veterans.

The VA has a responsibility to increase its capacity for substance abuse.

We need to be doing more of this in alternatives.

I think you are absolutely correct. It is why we have had a 90-percent reduction on new starts in opioids because we are using a different approach.