Thank you on the Clay Hunt bill is near and dear to many in this room.

So one piece that I want to convey to you is that we want to help, help you to be a leader on addressing stigma and particularly for veterans.

I think you need to expand this program where you can touch a buddy that was in the service.

I think the hiring process at the VA is ridiculously long and should be shortened for not just mental health, but other providers of health care.

you can't group us all into one big group, you have got to look at different cohorts.

I think you do have the largest comprehensive mental health program in the United States and it is not perfect, but it is certainly better than it was seven years ago.

There is a need for all of us as a whole to change the messaging around the VA and around suicide.

I think more research is important.

Having the negative messages out there that it is an epidemic, that there is 22 dying a day is increasing hopelessness in our veteran population.

Prepared Statement only.

I think this is moving in a direction that many of us wanted to see.