Elizabeth Esty: “Now is not the time to rest on our accomplishments. The only way to ensure we maintain our progress is to keep moving…”

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

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.

We should not expect our veterans to be experts in appeals law, Veterans Affairs regulations. That is not their job. It is our job to take care of them.

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