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

One veteran lost to suicide is one too many.

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

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

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

While suicide is a tragedy no matter where it happens, it is particularly painful when it occurs on the grounds of a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility with help mere feet away.

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.

That is a completely unacceptable situation, a horrible circumstance when you burden a veteran with the cost of their education benefits in this way.

So prohibiting that kind of pre-dispute arbitration with regard to Federal aid I think is one of the most important elements of the Borrower Defense rule, and that is threatened by this current administration that does not agree with that.

Well, I think it is something we definitely need to look into because an A does not mean, you know, anything.

Seven million empty jobs and very quick.

We need to take that bill up to Senate heads today and pass it. It is so complicated and for the students, I don't know how they get through it.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here and also thank you for being in Sevier County to unveil the new app for the FAFSA.

So, 77 percent finish on time in what they started in whether it is a nursing assistant, welding, or whatever; 97 percent in Tennessee are placed in their career path, get a job; and 100 percent graduate with 0 debt.

I think that is a real ongoing success story for VA and one that folks should know about.

I found that an amazing number.

I have met veterans out there who have been homeless.

This budget proposal does invest in our Nation's VAs, especially with regard to the implementation of the MISSION Act.

I truly can't think of many tasks more important than ensuring our veterans and the VAs have the resources they need to serve those who have served our Nation.

We should talk about the things that have happened, positively.

We spend a tremendous amount of money on suicide prevention, to the tune of billions of dollars and we haven't moved the needle at all.

I want to be sure that we leave this hearing today absolutely clear on what would have to happen for the worst-case scenario to come to pass.

We want transparency. Veterans expect and deserve transparency.

We know that VA can't be everything to everybody, just like the private sector sometimes has to.

I think that again was what I was getting to both specifically with respect to having more than one hospital in an area.