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.

In North Carolina, we had the Matthew event not long ago and other water events that have really demonstrated the challenges that we have around trying to mitigate the future risk of flooding in the urban areas and rural areas across the…

I am from North Carolina and proud to have been, as part of the State legislature, on the forefront of getting funding to advance mapping in the State.

I think we need it to be more agile.

I am hoping the Committee will indulge us on some of the suggestions that we have made for the program changes.

I supported the decommissioning of those weapons.

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

We are a part of that problem.

Somebody needs to own that.

What more do you think we need to do?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I think that is a classic example.

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.

I want to thank my colleague from Utah and his eloquent comments about the Supreme Court nominee. I would like to associate myself with everything he said. He has the kind of experience and insight that I hope so many Members on both sides…

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.

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.