Now, Secretary McDonald has said that he would like to eliminate homelessness in veterans by 2015.

I think just within VA, because of the small percent and the statistical minority of women, only about 7 percent out of the six million veterans that VA treats, it is always difficult and a challenge with women veterans.

We were very pleased that Under Secretary Hickey instituted it; really went back and looked and saw that those claims for MST-related conditions were being processed at a lower rate for PTSD.

I think we should make it as simple as possible for people who are transitioning from active duty to veteran status to be able to access the information.

Those are the women who are actually accessing the system. I have a feeling it might be a higher percentage.

I particularly want to thank you for focusing on whether we are keeping our promises, as indicated in the hearing notice, to our women veterans.

I think there definitely is a connection between setting certain standards and the spurring of developments that would help us meet those standards.

I see that EIA projects that nationwide the U.S. will only achieve 18 percent renewable energy by 2040 if we continue our current policies.

We need to provide a lot more of that kind of focused attention, face time, acknowledgement of the importance of those alliances.

I would say the countries we are dealing with in TPP--they would be much better off in the kind of system that we are promoting as opposed to dealing with a huge, powerful entity like China.

It will be a long time before China is ready to be in something like TPP, but I think the Chinese leaders see momentum behind it.