Elizabeth Esty: “I'm proud to be introducing this legislation with my colleague, Mr. Knight, and I want to thank him for his work on…”

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

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.

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.