Elizabeth Esty: “As the mother of three who's been in those first-grade classrooms and seen very bright kids who are struggling...”

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

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 want to thank the under secretary and his team for staying.

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