Mike Michaud: “We have got to have something, I think, in writing as we deal with VA's budget.”

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.

I greatly appreciate that we are all partners in promoting opportunities for veterans and in protecting their rights.