Betty McCollum: “Mental health is something in our military we know we want to cut down on people feeling that they can't ask.”

It is going to be a huge price tag.

Let me be clear--I will not write blank checks to the Department of Defense.

For America to be engaged in large scale conflict overseas for nearly a month--with no clarity for Congress or the American public about why--is shocking, unacceptable, and unprecedented in our history.

I started working on cleanup with Tom Udall over 20 years ago.