David Roe: “We can not keep doing exactly the same thing that we have been doing all these years.”

We have to start doing something differently.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

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.

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.