Kit Bond: “Thank you very much, Mr. McConnell. I regret to tell you that you come before us at a time of very stretched budgets.”

We are interested in getting a handle on this because, as you have indicated, there are so many moving parts in this that we want to try to get a handle on as many as possible.

I pledge to dedicate my skills and energy to strengthen our diplomatic and economic ties to Trinidad and Tobago to advance U.S. interests in the world and to promote American democratic values.

This program is too important to our veterans to push aside for another day or in order to fund another initiative.

One of the things that we have tried to do is to remedy a tremendous vacuum or absence of mental health specialists in both the DOD and the VA.