David Roe: “I share some of the real concerns of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle about where we are going to be.”

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.

I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is suicide.

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

The VA is not meeting all the needs, otherwise the suicide rate would not be 20 a day and staying there.