David Roe: “It is a different standard.”

With all the metrics and good intentions and all of that, the suicide rates have not changed, so we need to do something different.

I want to thank the Chairman for bringing this bill forward, and hopefully we can get this thing done and out of here by Christmas.

It is not a threat to the VA, it is a lifeline to the VA.

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.