It is my hope that we can use this hearing as an opportunity to restart our work that we should have completed long ago.

I want to thank Ranking Member Roe for his support of this day for the Members to talk about their ideas on veterans' issues.

I believe in second chances-but not in life or death situations.

It should be Congress' top priority to pursue every avenue to disrupt the tragic links between the separation from service and mental health illness.

Our veterans stepped forward and swore to defend our country and our values against all enemies.

We, as Members of Congress, must conduct vigorous oversight to determine how this could happen.

Why wait in getting these veterans help?

I will just urge you to not use this for social engineering but to use it to meet the intent that we talked about of helping the unbanked and helping people with cross-border payments.

If we are going to fight back, we need to recognize that modernizing and strengthening the Ex-Im Bank is part of what we have to do, and it is a national security issue.

So would you say it is a national security issue that we support our aerospace industry?

I want to commend you for your work on anti-money laundering.