David Roe: “Seven million empty jobs and very quick.”

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

I want to get this on the record thanking you for advocating breastfeeding and I think that is a huge thing that you have done.

I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is suicide.