Elizabeth Esty: “I want to thank the Chairman, my fellow Subcommittee Members, to all of you here today, for helping us do right by those…”

I am happy to welcome everyone here today as we enter the home stretch on the implementation of the Appeals Modernization Act.

I want to make sure that VA is using RAMP to inform the new system, and not as a means to disguise a true size of the appeals backlog.

Let me be clear. When the report on military sexual trauma came to my attention in August, I was disappointed and disturbed.

I believe it is a model that for large-scale policymaking that other Committees--this Committee and other Committees--should look to duplicate.