Mike Michaud: “Advance appropriations can provide fiscal stability during uncertain times.”

We see a decline in opioid use. We see a decline in suicide. And I think that is obviously good for the veteran.

VETS is committed to reducing veterans' unemployment nationally by helping each veteran through individual services.

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.

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.