David Roe: “It is the most sacrosanct thing we can have, number one.”

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency…

I want to congratulate this entire committee. Every one of you finished in exactly 5 minutes, so congratulations.

If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.