If you do not have the resources, mental health is not going to go away.

I am going to ask a question the Chairman asked you. I am going to ask it a little different way. Are you aggressively looking for alternative treatments for mental health?

$5 billion is a lot of dough and you guys should be able to utilize that to take care of this mental health problem in the VA.

Protecting our children's mental health is a priority for us all.

The challenges of stigma that surround mental health is huge in our society.

OK. Very good. Can I ask what the DOD is doing to help you?

We need to help not only our veterans, but the entire country deal with this issue as we move forward.

The signature injury coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan is PTSD.

Extending the combat eligibility period for prioritized care at the VA is an immediate and affordable option that we should pass this Congress.

As one of these guys talked about, over-medication--I think it was Senator Boozman, actually, who talked about over-medication--is this a problem?

This looks like a program to me that you do not need to spend another year on. It is a program that needs to be severely cut back.

You have not helped a single family, not even one, by agreeing to a principal reduction.

It has been 6 years since Congress created FHFA, and in all that time, your agency has never, not once, permitted a family to reduce its principal mortgage through Fannie or Freddie.

But they are not principal reductions, so let us just be----

How many more people have to lose their homes before we get there?

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It is unsatisfactory to hear from my colleagues here about the long wait periods that folks struggling with mental health conditions have to overcome.

We cannot find a place for him in the Burlington, VT, area.