It is time to think outside the box and tackle this very pervasive problem.

As a community, as a nation, and as members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, we need to fully understand the occurrence of clustering in units and work to prevent these deaths.

After years of lobbying by his family and veterans' groups, Congress in February passed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act.

Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend from New York. It is a phrase we sometimes throw around in here without a lot of authenticity behind it, but I can tell you, in this case, a gentleman who served this Nation three decades in uniform…

I appreciate his advocacy for our producers in the first district of Minnesota.

Real farm incomes are at a 20+ year low. It doesn't look like a lot of relief is on the horizon.

I am glad that Congressman Walz is here, and you mentioned about your trip to Tibet.

A lot of good food for thought helping us prepare as we go forward.

Yes, there is a generational difference, and the folks that I think we need to be most concerned about are those who have started farming in, let's say, the last 10 years or 5 years in particular where they started at a time of very high…

Risk management is critical.

I understand why people are hesitant to speak out sometimes, but we need to cultivate those relationships and hope that not tomorrow, but longer-term, this will turn in the right direction.