"I hope that the political will and political collaboration exists or will develop to allow us to do that."
"Not sure to whom I should address this question, but I am interested in the IDES, or the Integrated Disability Evaluation System, that is supposed to ensure that a wounded or disabled service member i..."
"I look forward to seeing that and to the degree that you can localize that capacity, I would love to know, for example, William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso at Bliss, what we have and what ..."
"Does the capacity then also exist to complement care provided at the VA where you have unacceptable wait times, especially in specialties like behavioral health and mental health?"
"I want to know what we are going to do to elevate it beyond where you are today to recruit those providers to underserved communities like El Paso."
"I want to, in addition, commend you for the focus on mental health access and treating veteran suicide like the crisis that it is."
"I think articulating that from the very top that this is, in addition to overall access to better health care, physical and mental, reducing veteran suicide is a priority."
"For their mental healthcare needs, while they were Active Duty, they were met almost without fail, without complaints."
"One of the oldest lessons in shipbuilding that has been learned many times over is to avoid design construction concurrency."
"You did a tremendous job working with our local VA, which is physically conjoined with William Beaumont."
"What I would say is that the Navy's experience in reducing shipbuilding and aircraft acquisition costs through the use of both multiyear procurement contracts and block buy contracting offers an examp..."