"We are getting a better understanding of it. I would not characterize it as a good picture at this point, not satisfactory to me."
"I hope that this committee and you will appear before us in the future so that we can have that appropriate oversight and accountability, lessons learned, so we can apply them going forward."
"I think we all want to respect the process and the investigation and certainly want to respect the ability for those families who lost a service member to learn the findings of the report first."
"We know that for those Veterans who have an other than honorable discharge...tens of thousands of them were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder."
"This is a priority, let's understand what the delta is and we are all going to do to bridge that gap..."
"I am convinced that as we acknowledge the problem that we have, and by your estimate it is 20 Veterans a day every single day are taking their lives."
"You are the first Secretary that I know of, who has made reducing veteran suicide a priority."
"I also want to acknowledge Ms. Titus, who is here, who has worked on this in previous Congresses and has really been a champion on this issue."
"Will veterans who have an other than honorable discharge be eligible for the HUD-VASH voucher program?"
"Should we be a 1 to 25?"
"I hope you can get me back something that we can measure and act upon."