So let me just ask real quick as it relates to severe Traumatic Brain Injuries and the need to get access to aid and attendance benefits, if they need them.

All servicemembers need to be treated with the same hand.

I have deep respect for what you do. This is not an issue that popped up yesterday.

We are recognizing that there is a changing face of the modern battlefield.

The only mistake that we can possibly make is to do nothing and to accept the status quo as the benefit package that today's generation of warriors is going to receive for the rest of their life.

But to accept that is to accept that there was an intent on the part of Members of Congress that wrote this to force the property in a family of a servicemember to all be listed in the servicemember's name.

It shocks me to look back over the 50 years and see the similarities of every Commission that came out and the incredible predictability of the bureaucracy in Washington to say, well, you know what? It doesn't need to change.

So, VA would be aware of veterans who appear to need those benefits but do not currently qualify?

the profound importance of spouse commitment to the readiness and well-being of servicemembers . . . and to the security of our Nation.

There's a human face behind every one of these issues.

I was just as frank with the last Administration as I will be with this one, and I'll do it as long as the Administration fights.