Robert A. McDonald: “It is just silly to think that we have a national issue with veterans being homeless.”

This Congress with today's VA leadership team can make these changes and more.

Reforming VA health care cannot be achieved by dismantling it or by preventing veterans from receiving the specialized care and services that can be received only from VA.

We will judge the success of all our efforts against a single metric, and that is veterans' outcomes.

The VA is in crisis. The veterans are in need. There is much to do.