I think Dr. Roe summed it up right. I don't think any of us have seen the level of services being provided by the VA.

I think it is important for this Committee, though, to maybe gently remind them they are not the first people to think of it.

I appreciate it. Thank you all for being here, as always, your services and most importantly, thank you for being there every minute of the day for decades to make sure we get this right and bring this expertise to it.

I think the implications are generational and we have never crossed that path and I think we may have to of what are the implications on the children of these exposures.

When we figure this out, let us know so we can apply it to this Congress, then we will get things going.

I am hopeful now that the public understands the need to care for our veterans.

90 percent of species are recovering at the rate specified by their Federal recovery plan.

We need to make sure there are not onerous burdens put on land owners. But we also have to ask the question; do we wish to have biodiversity and protection of species and to what extent?

Not being included in this ESA working group puts up unnecessary partisanship where it doesn't need to be.

This Committee has a long, storied history of bipartisanship. We have proven we can do it.

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