On the recordJune 15, 2016
I thank, again, both gentlemen, the ranking member and the chairman. I have come to the floor to emphasize these two amendments that are very important, I believe, to the work of the Defense Department and the many persons that they serve. I want to speak to the Jackson Lee amendment that addresses the question of post-traumatic stress disorder by emphasizing the numbers of individuals who are now coming back from service that have PTSD. PTSD has been discovered post the time of leaving the battlefield. Post-traumatic stress disorder is where one repeatedly relives the trauma of war in their thoughts--the day in and day out nightmares. Texas, in particular, is a State that has a large number of returning veterans. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
