Are there any other tools that we need to give you to be able to attract more people to help our veterans?

Well, I'm going to see President Trump this afternoon at the VA, and I'm going to take this issue up with him because I think that hopefully he will understand how critically important it is.

The VA overprescribed me, and my son committed suicide.

It is critically important, I believe, for the country.

I want to thank you all for your service and equally as important, the people you represent.

I believe, and I think most people believe that active duty deployment should count the same when it comes to benefits no matter what.

I fully support, as I believe the rest of my members here with me today, support the parity of benefits for our members when they are deployed with our active duty counterparts.

I want to shift to 30 soldiers from the Army Reserve of the 672nd Engineer Company called the 'Renegades' in Missoula.

The Adjutant Generals overwhelmingly feel that converting Dual-Status Military Technicians to Title 5 Federal employees will have a negative impact on their ability to respond to domestic emergencies.

It seems evident to me that there is a clear national interest for building defensive cyber capability in every State under the authority of the Adjutant General.

I think it is prudent to iron out these details before we move forward.

In fact, in my view the notion of adding cyber security to the Guard's Essential 10 Core Capabilities seems like common sense for 2017.

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I am so proud, truly, of that citizen force, having spent a lot of time with them personally and professionally back home in Montana.

Ensuring the U.S. taxpayer dollars and equipment does not end up in the wrong hands is certainly of utmost importance.

Foreign assistance can serve as an effective tool of American foreign policy and advance U.S. interests abroad.

I rise to support the nomination of Gov. Sonny Perdue for Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. As the only active farmer in the U.S. Senate, I have high expectations of the next Ag Secretary. Over the past 2 weeks, like millions of…

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