It is unacceptable and we are failing and need to do something about it.

Everybody deserves clean water.

It is the undoing of bias and the building of trust that VA must work toward.

I appreciate everyone being here and I look forward to continuing this conversation.

You know, I lead a Women Veterans Task Force and so we have been talking a lot around issues that impact women veterans and trying to find inequities and address those.

I want to thank you all for being here. I think this is the first time we have had a hearing on minority veterans.

We know racial bias in health care contributes to different outcomes and increased fatalities.

To me--and I know, I have brought this up many, many times, but I know at medical centers, the leaders of medical centers have a lot of autonomy, but we have got to figure out accountability here, because we are not really fulfilling what…

Sexual violence in the military impacts both men and women.

We have heard consistently that military sexual trauma represents the single most destructive problem within the military and veteran community.

the 25 percent rate of women veteran patients who have experienced sexual harassment at VA medical centers that VA publicly reports, as mentioned by Representative Brownley, that is an average.

During National Gun Violence Survivors' Week, I stand before you to call attention to the tragic impact of gun violence on our Nation. On November 7, 2018, Ventura County was forever altered by the Borderline shooting, which took the lives…