We have to preserve and expand resources to homeless vets, including HUD-VASH vouchers which provide crucial support of housing.

We are all troubled by the idea that our servicemen and women might return home from battle, survive battle, only to take their own lives.

That is why congressional oversight is the absolute key, putting policies in place that extend beyond individuals and making sure the oversight to implement them is a priority.

I want you to guarantee me the IG will immediately have access to that Office of Accountability Whistleblower Protection database and any other information it needs to audit that program today.

I know no one intends to fail, but I have seen it.

I think maybe this all comes together on what is possible, and Mr. Fortenberry was at the heart and the nexus of a very new way of delivering veterans care.

What we need to know, and what this Act does, is very simple. It simply clarifies that the VA has the capacity and the authority to do research into medicinal cannabis.

The VA has always been, since the early 1920s, this Nation's premier research institution.

But at the expense of and to be very honest, why blend them together if it is not just to continue to move money out of there.

Opening Statement of Walz, Hon. Tim

So, this idea that it is cheaper, it is quicker and it is better in the private sector, there is no data to support that.