Let me call this meeting of the Senate Veterans committee, this hearing to order. Thank all of you for coming today. Especially our witnesses. We have a number of members who are on the way, but were going to in the interest of time, were going to 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 preventable 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. Passed this committee 990, and well ask the secretary and the other members from the v. A. To give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of the act, but its a very important act. In august of 2014, i held a hearing at Georgia State university as a member of this committee. It was a f
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[inaudible conversations] this morning epa administrator scott pruitt testifies before House Appropriations subcommittee on Donald Trumps fiscal year 2018 budget request for the agency. Live coverage at 11 00 am eastern on cspan3, cspan. Org and the free cspan radio apps. Next, Veterans Affairs secretary doctor David Shulkin testifies on the president s 2018 budget request for his department. The hearing also has representatives of veterans groups talking about budget proposal. This hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] let me apologize for being a little late. A couple things coming down the hall, i dont want to flip up on me but stand at ease. In the air force, and for just one minute, my trusted friend, Ranking Member, will open the [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] call this meeting of the Veterans Affairs committee together. I apologize again for being a little bit late but i want to make sure we are on the right track and i didnt mess anything up
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our program. Thank you for sharing our commitment to holocaust remembrance. [applause] [america the beautiful] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you can watch this event again later today on our website, www. Cspan. Org. This will mark the anniversary of the 1943 were soft ghetto uprising to protest deportations of jews who were there. Our road to the white house coverage continues today. Donald trump is in West Virginia and he will attend a rally in charleston, the state capital thislds its primary coming tuesday and we will have live coverage. Madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the United States. Former utah senator bob bennett passed away wednesday night. He was 82 years old. He had been fighting pancreatic cancer vermonts and he served three te
Michael your question is important. I leave the legislating to the congress they determine the best time to update the law. They have expressed in updating the statute since 1996. I leave it in their capable hands. The calendar has gotten away from them. But there is appetite to change some of the statute. I do find that the statute does provide a number of problems for the commission. We are taking advantage, the majority is, taking advantage of provisions in the statute interpreting them in ways that werent intended, reading words in or out that should not be done. So i have trouble with how the commission is interpreting the law and whether they are actually following the law. I dont believe they do and i have expressed my views on that point. Beyond that, i do think that modernizing the statute would be appropriate, but thats for congress to decide. Peter michaela llo riley, one of two republicans on the commission. And howard buskirk. [captions Copyright National cable satellite c