Mark Begich: “I'll just start first with Ray.”

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?

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.

All we want to do is fix it for Alaska Native people. That is all.

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