Thom Tillis

I believe that we need to work on that, but we also need to make it a very frightening proposition for people going forward to be captured into this sort of activity.

As a member of the Veterans Committee, if there is something that we could do to disallow their benefits for bad behavior after they are discharged, those are the sorts of things that we have to do.

I am very thankful to the committee that you have actually given us some tools.

What more do you think we need to do?

I supported the decommissioning of those weapons.

We are a part of that problem.

Somebody needs to own that.

I do not agree with that. I think that there are--we are comparing probably not the right data sets.

I want to thank the panelists for being here today. This is the beginning of a dialogue, not just a meeting.

What kind of work has been done to help facilitate the crosswalk of their military experience?

We should think first by identifying unique categories that we can look at.

I think that is a classic example.

I wanted to thank Senator Gillibrand for her work and successfully preserving some of the TRICARE coverages for families with children with autism.

I appreciate your feedback on the policy or maybe some concerns.

The main thing that we need to focus on, though, is instead of just purely asking you all questions about what we think you need is to make sure that we are listening to you about things that we have not even thought about yet.

Some of them we may not address in the most efficient manner possible, and there are a lot of opportunities for, I think, improvement here.

The topics we are going to discuss today are vital to the health of our All-Volunteer Force.

Thank you all, gentlemen. To your spouses, thank them for their service too because I know, if it is like my job, it is teamwork that makes it possible.

We cannot constrain what, in your best judgment, is the best way to serve veterans and then come up here and quietly prevent you from doing that.

We need to have you come back and tell the Congress when we are the main reason why you cannot do what you want to do.

Anyone in this body who tells you that there is a movement afoot to privatize the VA has either been mislead or they are trying to mislead you, and I am not going to be a part of that, nor am I going to stand for it.

I am tired of some of the suggestions by Members of Congress who say that there is some plot out there, or agenda, to do it. It is simply not true.

I have been studying it carefully, and I have not seen one yet.

I think we all agree we want people to have housing. We want every child that grows up to be able to realize the American dream.

What matters most is the benefit to the people that we are trying to serve.