David Roe: “if you want to have it, fine, vote for it. That is legal in America. And if you do not, you ought to be able to not vote…”

The provision in Section 2, it says, 'The Secretary shall give preference in the provision of financial assistance under this section to eligible entities who have demonstrated the ability to provide assistance and suicide prevention…

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.

Implementation and enforcement can be a good thing where government is working with businesses to help them get to a desired result or it can be a dagger in the heart.

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