David Roe: “I will oppose because of what I have seen in many a government-run plan.”

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.

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 think we are moving in the right direction.

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.