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Derrick Van Orden: “Mental health issues, skyrocketing.”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Van Orden Urges VA Undersecretary Elnahal & Sec. McDonough to Resign After Executive Bonus Scandal

Published | Video Starts at 11:14

You do come up here and you take heavies all the time. Means nothing. It means nothing because our veterans are killing themselves. Drug and alcohol addiction, skyrocketing. Spousal abuse, skyrocketing. Mental health issues, skyrocketing. All under your watch, sir. And Mr. Anahal's watch. So the binary choice is this. Be remembered in history as someone who has abjectly failed, or be the new start. (11:14–11:17)

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