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Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this
Were live at the Senate Veterans affairs committee, where the success tear will testify about preventing veteran suicides as the committee looks into what congress can do to prevent them. Senator Johnny Isaacson chairs the committee. John tester is the top democrat on the committee. This is live coverage on cspan 3. We call this hearing to order. I thank all of you for coming today, especially our witnesses. We have a number of members on the way, but were in the interest of your time were going to get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. This month in america is National Suicide e Prevention Month across the kocountry. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss of life. John will remember when we came in as a committee our first bill we passed was the Suicide Prevention bill. Passed this committee 990. It will ask to give us a report on the progress on the implementation of the act but its a very important act. And in august of 2014 i held a hearing at Georgia St
As we look for ways to save money, what im concerned of and you are not a part of and if you are, let me know, potentially if we do it in congress or you do administratively, in montana, havent had it for years, walkin and using this and close it down. Same could be said in south dakota. If that were to happen there would be a bipartisan explosion on this committee which would not be a good thing. I bring that to your attention. Im all for getting rid of properties that outlive their usefulness and utilizing those dollars is a Good Government thing and i applaud his efforts but i am going to tell you there are some people that want to do a fullblown break and some of the metrics dont speak to them not because they are not good facilities, they have been staffed. I want to bring that up. In your testimony Suicide Prevention is a top priority. You also mentioned the va integrated Mental Health services to the primary care va centers. Tell me what that means in montana. What it means is t
Of time were going to go ahead and get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people in the room know, this month in america is National Suicide Prevention Month across the country. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss, and wasteful loss of life. And preventible loss of life. I think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay hunt Suicide Prevention bill. It passed this committee 990. And we asked the secretary and the other members of the v. A. Here today to give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of clay hunt act. But its a very important act. In august of 2014, i held a hearing as a member of this committee. It was a field hearing on the issue of suicide. The reason i did was because in that year, the months leading up to august of 2014, georgia va hospital in decatur had three suicides, two on campus. Some from mishandling of available