Julia Brownley: “Most troubling is the widespread incidence of sexual violence in the ranks, an epidemic that disproportionately affects…”

I do think that it is important that we acknowledge the progress that we have made.

I applaud the VA in terms of their strong focus on implementation of the PACT Act, but we can not forget the rest of the VA and all the other missions that we have here.

It is frustrating that the VA has not made more progress addressing these challenges, most of which long predate the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is just I feel as though we have given--this committee has given the VA a lot of tools and sometimes those tools are underutilized to get to the goals that we are trying to get to.