Patty Murray

And there is actually a real reason for that. It is one of the most difficult projects that DOE has ever undertaken.

Given the strong oversight that this Committee has done leading up to this hearing, I think it is very clear we are going to be following this carefully.

I am deeply concerned about women veterans, any veterans, but women veterans being placed in a place with no privacy, no locks on doors, no locks on bedrooms.

VA requests that Congress extend this authority through December 31, 2016.

VA asks Congress to extend authority to provide expanded services to homeless Veterans.

Thank you very much.

We trust that government will reflect its best by continuing to adopt these principles and translate them into funding support.

Secretary Shinseki laid out the bold goal of ending homelessness among veterans in 5 years.

No one who has sacrificed to serve our Nation in uniform should ever be without a roof over their head.

The Northwest is really struggling last spring with too much hydro and wind generation.

What is your level of confidence?

We need some recommendations. We need to move forward. We need this to be a top priority at the Pentagon.

That is a horrendous offense.

I think this needs to be transparent and clear.

We still today have not gotten this right after this war in making sure that they transition back home.

You can't imagine what it's like to talk to a soldier who was told he had PTSD.

This is complex. It's hard. It's problematic, but it needs every single effort from top to bottom.

Enrollment is continuing to climb. The number of servicemembers' cases meeting timeliness goals is unacceptably low.

I, too, am very alarmed by the suicide rate among our servicemembers and our veterans.

We've got to get this right, and we got to get it right now, and we need every effort at it.

That's just unacceptable.

We need to go back and find every soldier that may have not gotten the proper diagnosis and evaluation.

I wanted to ask you what specific measures do you look at to evaluate whether soldiers are receiving the proper diagnosis, and care, and honest evaluation.

I am really concerned that soldiers Army-wide have been improperly diagnosed and treated by the Army.

I have asked my Veterans Affairs Committee staff to begin reviewing cases from throughout the country of servicemembers involved in this process.