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
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
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