I appreciate your answers. I would also say that the numbers in rural areas are not there because it is rural.
I anticipate, I mean--I think it is something that is critically important and would go a step further to say, when you make that announceme...
We look forward to the proposals in the next few months.
I really do look forward to the pilot project.
I want to remind folks that by some estimates 7 percent of homeless veterans on any given night are in rural or frontier areas of our countr...
I do applaud Secretary Shinseki's call to end homelessness among veteran populations. This is the right goal.
The reality is that folks in rural areas are going to be harder to reach and it's harder to get key services and resources to them.
I think the key is finding them and getting them help.
We have a lot of folks out there in rural America living in abandoned farm buildings, in the woods.
Do you feel comfortable that you are getting the numbers?
We have to get the economy moving again and we have to make sure these folks are getting the health services and job training skills they ne...
It takes all of these services delivered together in an integrated way to get the veteran off the street.
I mean, it would be good. I can tell you that when I was in the State legislature, we dealt with a lot of law enforcement issues in the loca...
I would like to know how many police that has resulted in over the last few years.
So how can you in your testimony, you can say that, I guess, you are able to meet the needs, but you are not meeting the needs.
Public safety is very important. As we talk about unemployment and lack of economic improvement in Indian Country, safety has to be our firs...
So I am hearing those guys' needs aren't met.
I appreciate your openness about getting the information to us so that we know as appropriators that the money is being spent wisely and eff...
