And the F-35, like the Ohio replacement program, is really essential to all of our national defense.

I would welcome your commitment that you will encourage and support even more efforts to deal with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury and those invisible wounds of war.

Twenty-two veterans every day in this country, the strongest, best country in the history of the world, commit suicide.

Senator McCain has really been a champion. I've been very proud to work with him on this issue.

I'm a strong supporter of small business set-asides and the American shipping industry and our country's domestic merchant marine sector.

I believe you are very much attuned to it, and I am hopeful that you will continue the military's commitment...

I do not mean in any way to cast aspersions on them, but there is a lot of potential here for making a difference by mandating reporting.

Thank you, Chair Collins, and thanks to you and Senator McCaskill for having this hearing and beginning on such a profoundly important note.

The key is trying to meet our moral obligation to these folks. They are our neighbors.

They wanted us to put them away for a long time.

One of the things that I find encouraging is that all three countries have agreed and signed onto this Alliance for Prosperity.

Good. Well, I think we agree it is important to continue our efforts, and we want to be helpful.

I am a big supporter of your ongoing efforts to move our country's health care system away from volume-based toward value-based payment for care.

A number of years ago we--Dr. Coburn and I, in the Bush administration and then in the Obama administration--focused, focused, focused on this with GAO and started to see that number being driven down, which is good.

I am concerned about the funding cliff that is faced by our federally qualified community health centers.

The PACE model for providing care and services is a good fit for this younger, qualified population.

Would you please discuss with us some of the improvements in health care outcomes as well as cost savings that may have already been realized in the last few years due to value-based Medicare reimbursements?

I was pleased to see the Administration's proposal to expand PACE to serve younger individuals with disabilities and other high-risk populations.