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there's been an issue at the VA in which a person at suicide risk was counseled by their supervisor to frankly lie about the incident.

An action plan does not necessarily create results.

Today I rise to honor the life of a truly remarkable gentleman, Mr. Ray Young. Mr. Ray was born in Hico, Louisiana, in 1929 and grew up no stranger to hard work or getting his hands dirty on his family's farm. Building a successful…

An action plan does not necessarily create results.

How pervasive, do you have a sense of how pervasive that is?

Well, the Vet Centers are obviously a place, that's where you can go and if there's a gap between the veteran and the services and their families and the mental health and the readjustment, and you name it, that's what the Vet Center is…

Veterans' mental health and suicide prevention should be all of our top priority.

It has been nearly 100 days since my colleagues elected me to lead this Chamber, and I cannot express how grateful I am for their trust. This is the honor of my life and it means everything to us. Despite the challenges that we face day in…

Veterans' mental health and suicide prevention should be all of our top priority.

Well, the Vet Centers are obviously a place, that's where you can go and if there's a gap between the veteran and the services and their families and the mental health and the readjustment, and you name it, that's what the Vet Center is…

In the letter, the signers said that America is facing a new and unfamiliar threat. As my colleagues know, you never want to hear our intelligence leaders speak about an unfamiliar threat, but these former FBI officials told us that we are…

I was pleased to see the VA recently announced that it'll award another $50 million to community organizations to help prevent veteran suicide.

Now, I'm hearing though they're not making the connections.

I was pleased to see the VA recently announced that it'll award another $50 million to community organizations to help prevent veteran suicide.

So is there a stepwise plan that you could send the two of us and we could look at it and we say, 'Oh, this is reasonable. They're addressing it.'

there's been an issue at the VA in which a person at suicide risk was counseled by their supervisor to frankly lie about the incident.

I think a lot of the anecdotal--that anecdotal evidence, and also the basic and mechanistic evidence, is informing the development of clinical trial.