Kit Bond: “We have a right, these days, to know: What were the criteria? What were the applications?”

But you are seeing only the younger ones with PTSD and TBI, the success rates, the bottom line that Mr. Norman referred to is not quite as good as the older, say, more mature veterans of your age and even as high as mine.

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

You mentioned that you are still confident in the official $5.8 billion estimate or whatever it was that OMB came up with.

It seemed to me that that policy was designed to bail out lenders on their risky investments but did little to save a home with a risky loan for the homeowner.