I want to make sure, as we are moving to try to better administer the Choice Program, that these evidence-based programs are covered in the Choice program.

I think what you are doing in your patient-centered care area with Tracy Gaudet is some of the most exciting stuff going on, not just in the VA, but in government today.

I think it is important for us to figure out how we can help you start to reduce this backlog.

I think that is going to be a big thing, not just for the vets, but out in society as well.

Congressman Womack and I are already working on some legislation to be able to do that.

The deeper I get into the Appropriations Committee, the more valuable I find what you and your team do.

the skinny budget from the President is proposing to flat-line the VA discretionary programs, which you are included in.

if 24 million people lose their health care, I don't know what the exact number would be, but we would assume that hundreds of thousands, at least, would be veterans----

In 2016, we lost 4,000 of our fellow citizens in the State of Ohio to overdose, primarily from opiates.

We actually brought the entire commission, Governor Christie and Congressman Kennedy and others, there to Cleveland because they are one of the leaders in the country in the lowest rates of opioid prescribing.

I come from Ohio, and we have, as you know, an opiate epidemic that is of immense proportions for us.