David Roe: “If you ask anybody on a VA campus who they work for, they will say the VA.”

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…

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 will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.