Mike Michaud: “I believe it would be a real damaging effort among many of our vulnerable citizens including veterans and their…”

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

If you look at the chart comparing women veterans to female non-veterans, you can see in that chart that actually the female veterans' number is lower than the female non-veterans.

So we have a situation in our country where 22 veterans commit suicide everyday.

And so our bill, the PAWS Act, takes these veterans, particularly the ones that have severe Post-Traumatic Stress, and authorizes a small amount of funding so that the VA can pair them with specially trained service dogs.