David Roe

Let me give you the old if it ain't broke don't fix it.

If you do not get those right, that person can die. They can overdose and die.

I do not know for sure, but what could be happening forcing you to the open market would be if the vendors and or manufacturers just said we cannot make any money selling this product, so we just will not provide it.

One of the things I would like you to look at when you are reviewing this is are you finding any of the medications on the PPV, companies leaving them off because the margins are so thin, knowing that they will go around the contract into…

The other thing that is a real problem, Mr. Michaud, that you hit on that is extremely important is the importation or large amounts of generic drugs to this country.

Because what happens, I can tell you if I am the doc in the VA and I do not have medicine for my patient in the ICU who is having problems, I am going to be beating on the administrator that day to get me what I need to take care of that…

Let's say there is a medicine on short supply. What does the VA do?

I called my local VA yesterday and spent some time on the phone with them to find out exactly how this process worked.

I really think that there was a complete failure when you see this veteran out on the street and to see them come up with a place to live and a job is one of the most rewarding things I have seen since I have been in Congress.

I wonder if we could or would it be helpful for us? You have less than 1 percent of the House of Representatives sitting here and obviously we did not know what was going on and we are on the Committee.

I am so thankful that General Shinseki has really made homeless veterans a priority because those veterans, both men and women, have really literally lost everything, no place even to live.

I think that probably is the single most important thing that a veteran can have when they leave is their family to go home to, someone waiting for them, and, secondly, a job to go to, a profession.

I don't understand why NIMH wouldn't be here. And I think we need to have an explanation.

The way PTSD is acknowledged and treated today is totally different than the end of Vietnam, when I got out of the military.

In order to bring attention to PTSD in the military, given today's hearing topic, I wanted to make sure that we invited this veteran and recognize his tremendous efforts on the military suicide and PTSD.

I wonder if the resources aren't there now, and instead of creating another bureaucracy, just organize the resources that we have.

The VA has the power to be omnipresent.

We now are requiring our colleges to look at graduation rates, not at the number of students that are in there, to get their funding.

How has that happened, where a young man like myself from a middle-class family--quite frankly, it was very simple when I went to medical school.

I had a job. My father worked in a factory. We had no student loans then.

I think our higher education system in America is the best in the world.

One of the things we worked on while I was home was some veterans homeless issues.

Veterans who carried the war, that we have as a country placed in harm's way to do what we have asked them to do to protect our freedoms, that now we provide the benefits we promised them, period.

Students really don't care where the money comes from; they just want the money to go to school.

It is becoming, as Mr. Hinojosa and Mrs. Biggert have pointed out, much more difficult for young people to afford to go to college now.