David Roe: “If we are to move this bill forward, I would commit to using the savings from these changes...”

Every time a life is lost to suicide, it is a tragedy.

The VA is not meeting all the needs, otherwise the suicide rate would not be 20 a day and staying there.

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.

I want to congratulate this entire committee. Every one of you finished in exactly 5 minutes, so congratulations.