CHARLES W. DENT: “I thank the gentleman for his genuine concern and thoughtfulness with respect to veterans' homelessness. It is indeed a…”

“I thank the gentleman for his genuine concern and thoughtfulness with respect to veterans' homelessness. It is indeed a very severe problem. I do look forward to working with him on this issue, but I also want to mention that I think our bill does respond quite admirably in many ways to the homelessness challenge. We support more than $7.3 billion in medical care, housing, social service, and job training assistance for homeless veterans, and that is about $197 million more this year than in fiscal year 2017 and almost $450 million more than 2 years ago. But Congressman Green is correct that we can always do more and that this challenge continues to plague us. We have made great progress in this country, but I pledge to work with Mr. Green on this issue.”