Elizabeth Esty: “I have heard from folks in the town of Kent, that is in my district, that allowing a previously denied tribe... would be…”

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

I hope we can take the lessons that are being learned there and make sure that those are used every time with forward-going programs.

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