I got inspired. Hopefully, you can too.

Chairman Filner also introduced legislation, and we merged our ideas together into one bill which were signed into law last year as part of title 38.

I also introduced a bill that authorized VA to provide grants via the USOC to other local disabled sports programs.

I salute VA and all their partners for being pioneers in the adaptive sports arena.

I believe that sports therapy is among the most valuable rehabilitative tools we can provide our wounded warriors.

I mean, it is important for them to see someone that has sort of been through the same thing.

Mr. Chairman, while you and I don't always see eye-to-eye, we are in total agreement on the value of using sports to improve the lives of our disabled veterans.

One of the things I am hearing is that the element of leadership that is missing as a clear, concise metrics.

The DAV, just a while ago, highlighted a need to collect more results-oriented data.

How effective is that in terms of reaching a veteran with these sorts of problems as opposed to having someone that can actually touch their hands and look them straight in the eye?

One of the problems we are facing in California is that our prisons are severely overcrowded resulting in poor health care for prisoners.