I urge my colleagues to support this measure so we can pass it quickly into law and start addressing an issue that all of us know happens all too often.

With an increasing number of female veterans, the VA must expand its care and services to meet their needs.

While there is no bill that will completely end veteran suicide, this comprehensive bipartisan measure is a step in the right direction.

The model of the Veterans Administration basically comes straight from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural.

The reality is the VA has done very little in the way of studying Agent Orange affects in anybody ever, in the whole history of Vietnam veterans coming home.

We would like to thank Representative Walz and Chairman Miller for bringing forth this bipartisan legislation.

I am embarrassed that they are grateful to me because that veteran should have been able to do that on their own.

We just have to make sure that, as we put regulations in place, they mesh with what are the best practices.

It is an economic issue. It impacts everything from water quality to the farmers' bottom lines.

We know, and we have the data to prove it.

Thank you for holding this bipartisan and important hearing.