David Roe: “We are obligated to act whenever an agency may be harming our job creators and workforce.”

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.

We have to reach out and try to find those 14 who never get to the VA, never get the care.

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.

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.