Jon Tester

It will ensure the requirements to update forest plans make sense and that the Forest Service will be able to get started on their projects.

We have got to get our arms around the whole baby before we can even get to a point where we are talking about----

I mean, the best-laid plans without the people, infrastructure, so it is going----

And how are you going to do it when you have got to have somebody there that knows the issue, right?

I just want to bring that up.

I would just tell you, as we look for ways to save money in common-sense ways, what I am really concerned about is...

We cannot have a bunch of excuses. We have got to have more solutions than excuses.

Boy, we ought to be taken out and beaten.

I want to go back to manpower for just second.

We need to fill those vacancies within the VA.

VA data suggests that approximately 20 veterans commit suicide every day.

Since the Chairman dropped the gavel at the beginning of this hearing, six people have committed suicide in this country.

It continues to be unacceptable that we have the number of suicides in our veteran population that we have.

I think you are the key, to be able to partner with folks like you, to really move this issue.

The vast majority, close to 70 to 75 percent are through firearms.

Actually working with the families to train them so they could recognize what to do?

I think we are making a big mistake.

In some ways, my condition helped me, but on those days where I struggle, you better be there to help me, too.

Why do we not--I mean, when you are talking about Abraham Lincoln, why are we not saying that our Nation was blessed because that guy had bipolar disorder or depression?

The easy thing for the military to do is pitch somebody out if they have got behavior problems.

I cannot thank you enough to look at where you get the most bang for the buck. But, security costs money.

I do not understand what went into that thought process.

We need an unbiased political opinion on what is best for this country.

I do not think the wall is the most effective way.

I do feel that this is an urgent matter.