David Roe: “But is that a system we want to continue at the VA? Because the VA is a huge system, and treating millions of people…”

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.

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.

I strongly urge the Committee and Congress to consider programmatic changes that ensure greater access to the PPP and EIDL programs.

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.