Mark Begich: “Is there anything we can do? Especially when I was mayor we did audits all the time; we always had a team that would…”

It has been an honor to be here.

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.

How we approach this mental health system for the VA cannot be in isolation of the mental health system of this country.

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?