Pat Ryan: “I know the Secretary of the VA. We have disagreements with him, but…”

On the recordMay 21, 2019

I know the Secretary of the VA. We have disagreements with him, but he, himself, has testified before our committee talking about these programs and about the importance of these programs. If you want to be inspired, go sit in a meditation class with a Vietnam vet who has been traumatized for years and listen to them tell you about how these practices have healed them and have fixed their problems and reconnected them back to their families. Madam Speaker, I want to thank everybody for their leadership on this, and we will continue to try to support it from the appropriations side.

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May 21, 2019

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