David Roe

This proposal is the quickest and clearest route to delivering benefits to these deserving veterans.

We need to ensure Blue Water veterans in the event Procopio is appealed to the Supreme Court and overturned.

I support the draft update of H.R. 299. I hope it passes the House without delay.

I could not agree with you more: Whatever creates an increased wages for workers is a good thing.

I do not remember in my lifetime a better time for a young person to graduate from school with skills.

Whatever creates an increased wages for workers is a good thing.

Those are her words and I couldn't agree more than any effort to fulfill the promise of Brown has to include a commitment to parent empowerment.

It is clear we have a lot of work to do at every level of educational governance to ensure the promise of Brown is fulfilled for every child.

I don't see how you can ask a parent in a failing school to keep their--that is the only chance that child has.

I may be the only person sitting up here that graduated from high school in the segregated school system in the rural South.

It was clear in the Roundtable on Suicide sponsored earlier by Chairman Takano and Ranking Member Dr. Roe that neither VA nor DOD was even thinking in these terms.

We thank you for the opportunity to testify on this deeply troubling issue of the growing number of suicides amongst the veteran community.

We would greatly appreciate your consideration to hold another no later than July of this year.

A grateful nation cares for you. Both your service and life are valued, and your continued existence is necessary to advancing the causes for which you so selfless served.

We should be doing all we can to ensure family members and caregivers not only feel supported but have access to much needed resources as they help their loved one recover.

I encourage every member of this Committee to record a suicide prevention PSA to highlight VA's Be There campaign.

Truly thanking veterans for their service means helping them when they need it most and rise above political opportunism to support veterans in crisis.

Ultimately, it's up to all of us to reduce and prevent veteran suicide because this is not a problem VA can solve alone.

We need to understand why this legislation hasn't done more to prevent suicides.

My Republican colleague, Ranking Member Roe, often says we haven't 'moved the needle' far enough to reduce veteran suicide.

It's clear we are not doing enough to support veterans in crisis.

99.6 percent of veteran suicides are not occurring on our campuses.

The fact that help was a few feet away is deeply troubling.

I would like to also caution us all in having that discussion to resist narratives that paint veterans as victims, or a tragedy of suicide is insurmountable.

Our goal should be more than just preventing suicide. It should be helping our veterans to live a life of meaning and joy.