We have a full-time suicide prevention coordinator.

I would just ask that the speakers use the microphone because we have had some comments that it has been difficult to hear your testimony.

even one suicide is one too many.

How many patients in the last two years under your care have committed suicide?

We have to do better, and we have to do it now.

To address an issue of such importance to us all, the provision for high-quality and effective mental health care to veterans in need.

our veterans deserve the absolute best, and we want to make sure that your agency is doing the best they can.

I am extremely grateful to work side by side with him and with his leadership on behalf of our Nation's veterans and their families.

The vet center program is geared toward readjustment counseling services for war-zone veterans and their families.

I come to the floor today to honor the life of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Butterfield, who was tragically killed in the line of duty on September 9, 2013. Trooper Butterfield was an Army veteran who bravely served his community as…

Do you think that the IG going to, in view of the testimony we had today, do you think you would entertain a plan to try to inspect how VA is doing things?

Wouldn't you agree that this is an emergency, that there should be rapid action taken?

Thank you, Mr. Lewis, for your testimony. I truly appreciate your efforts here.

I join the American Legion in saying that the coeducational model of residential treatment programs needs to be overhauled, and quickly.

I want to thank you all so very much for coming to Washington and telling your stories.

I think the testimony of the first panel was compelling and heartwrenching.

Frankly, the testimony that I heard from all of you today is, really, really revealing and tragic, and I know that there is bipartisan support in the Subcommittee to make significant changes in the way DoD and VA treat victims of sexual…

Male survivors are the equals of female survivors and need to be treated as such by the Veterans Health Administration.

I thank the gentleman for his support, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Benishek). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 10 Offered…

The overall supervision of military sexual trauma programs within the Veterans Health Administration has been vested in the Director of Women's Mental Health, Family Services, and Military Sexual Trauma.

It is particularly frustrating to me to hear these stories one after another.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 45, line 15, insert before the period, the following: ``, such as the number of students enrolled in…

I cannot in good conscience recommend VA to any survivor of military sexual trauma at this time.

I hope that the administration officials in the audience were listening as closely as I was to your testimony.

It is very, very frustrating to hear that, and to know there are many out there that we haven't heard today.