These funding increases will mean a number of things: improved access to needed health care services at our V.A. medical facilities.

It will mean fewer veterans will be homeless, and I know we all long for the day where there is not one homeless veteran on any street of any city in America.

I would like to, again, thank all the members of this subcommittee on both sides of the aisle for our work over the past 2 years.

I promised him, if I ran into you all, I was going to talk to you about this, so I will.

He thinks that something should be done about the fact that there is a quota on these case workers.

The authority is there. In fact, it has been done in, with respect to Kings Bay in the fiscal year 1991.

I am still concerned about BRAC and the impact that it has on our communities living at Fort Sill, Fort Bliss, Fort Bragg, Fort Lewis, and, of course, Fort Benning that I represent.

We will revisit that, sir, because there are a number of communities across the country that are impacted.

But (b)(2) says community impact assistance or special impact assistance is not otherwise available, meaning they can't pay.

It seems to me that the Pentagon's approach is then, you know what? That is the community's responsibility.

I believe the law is found at 10 U.S.C. 2391(b)(2) for community impact assistance.