Kit Bond: “With a $12 trillion and growing deficit, we cannot continue to throw Federal funds at projects, willy-nilly.”

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.

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.

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.