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It is one patient. It is one soldier.

We are not asking you to fight our battle, but we need you as a partner, shoulder to shoulder.

One of my concerns is time.

Thank you and your family. I also want to thank Secretary Hagel for his service as Secretary of Defense...

We lost 479 young men and women to suicide in 2013 who were in the military.

Mercury is toxic to the human brain. And neurological problems have been caused by mercury and mercury should not be in vaccines.

The establishment of a four-star Joint Readiness Command (JRC) to oversee joint readiness, especially medical readiness, is intended to fill a critical gap, rather than increase bureaucracy.

The most important thing is our military medical readiness.

I made some mistakes. We should have indexed the premiums on TRICARE for the gray area retirees.

It should not be lost on the committee that of the five commissioners, all of us have had military service, we are military retirees, we have served this Nation in war and in peace.

I want to state that what the chairman and vice chairman have stated relative to our unbelievably complex tax code has to be addressed.

Senator Cardin, who just spoke, and I are going to be introducing, this week, legislation that I hope you will be able to support.

What we seek to do is to mitigate the financial risks of the chronic and catastrophic illnesses to the Active-Duty family households.

It is about your leadership on setting those national standards.

We are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide. In the Active Duty, we lost 132 young men and women in combat in 2013. We lost 475 to suicide, almost four times as many.

We are asking that you give it statutory power to actually implement the recommendations.

And, not to interrupt you----but just to say, and they are extraordinarily concerned.

The only thing that we want, we expect out of this, is just enough to meet practical needs.