Jerry Moran

Providing counseling to the counselors.

I wouldn't suggest we would ever overreact because who knows what the circumstance is

Is the veteran receiving--is it your experience that when you talk to those individuals, that they have received the appropriate care they need during the timeframe from which they made the call on the hotline to the time that you actually…

And the veteran apparently has the option of saying, 'No, I don't want to be referred'?

A month from now we ought not be having this same conversation.

The issue is it's not being done----

I would anticipate we have a second round.

I'll be back to you about the disconnect between increasing resources and not necessarily increasing outcomes.

The Choice Act, when I was asking the question, I was thinking of community providers.

Is my statement that access to care, mental health services, suicide prevention efforts, is it a true statement that it is less available in rural America?

We're honored to have you with us, and we look forward to having a dialogue.

I hope that his plan starts with a veteran-centered approach to provide outreach at every possible opportunity.

I do not see a connection between increased funding and better outcomes.

The latest data available suggests 20 veterans a day take their own life, and we all agree that even one is too many.

The latest data suggests that 20 veterans a day take their own lives, and there is no one who would disagree that that number should be zero.

I believe there is value in the ATEAM in Kansas.

If you care about rural America, you better care about rural America's airports.

We need to make sure the AIP program, the airport grant program, has a long-term viability to it for the small airports, as you mentioned, and Senator Cantwell mentioned.

I think this is an example of where having the Commander at Irwin Army Hospital, the Hospital Commander, talking to the VA VISN Director in Kansas City, that is a better solution and more likely to find common ground than if there is a…

I appreciate your words. I am very interested in this, as chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans, this is an issue I want to push.

Consumers need protection from those who seek to defraud them through scams, and the Federal Government must do everything it can to protect consumers from truly bad actors.

Kansas is a place in which UAVs receive a significant amount of attention. We are involved in lots of research, and testing, and implementation.

I want to forewarn and foretell you that I will be knocking on your door as we look for ways to innovatively help tribal education certainly at this level and this particular university for the betterment of Indian people across the Nation.

This issue is too important to let another two years go by without approval. Indian country and this successful program deserve better.

I want to thank this committee and our champion on this issue, Sen. Jerry Moran, for recognizing the untenable position in which this put tribal sovereigns and the quick approval of S. 63, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act.