Mr. President, my colleagues and I are often at odds when trying to solve some of our Nation's most pressing and difficult problems. However, one thing we can all agree on is that the men and women who wear our Nation's uniforms are…

the infrastructure is terrible throughout the country.

But we should know the answer in the sense that that is why we are doing it.

This legislation is supported by many VSO's, including some here today, and would be a step in the right direction in expanding educational opportunities for veterans and would actually save the Federal Government money.

Extending this program is a common sense step to empower our disabled veterans through sport, and benefits the physical and mental health of our disabled veteran community.

S.695 Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013

Thank you for holding this hearing so that we can continue to evaluate proposals to improve the quality and delivery of services to our Nation's veterans, and fight to uphold all of the promises that we have made to them and their families.

Is there any correlation with not being able to manage your finances and committing a violent crime?

it makes no sense when you have no correlation to violent crime that these individuals--I understand if we are picking out people who are mentally impaired and we need to get much more aggressive in that regard, not only in this situation…

Again, I appreciate the fact that it seems like we are getting good news regarding the claims process.

We are proud to support Senator Boozman's bill.