David Roe: “Just graduate from high school.”

Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us.

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.