David Roe: “If you are going to say something, do it. If you are going to do it, do it right.”

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.

I want to thank you for having this. I think we should continue this, because this is a travesty in the United States to have these kinds of mortality rates.

the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency…

Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us.