I'm the ranking member on the Veterans Affairs Committee, really proud of it. Fighting the cuts and the firings and the furloughs that are inhibiting provision of services to our veterans. This Veterans Administration leadership has engaged in unnecessary and actual counterproductive cuts in for example, the Veterans Crisis line. that helps to save veterans when they are threatening to take their own lives by guns. Often if you provide for safe storage, you can save veterans lives as well as others. (1:05:45–1:05:57)
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Asserts that the Veterans Administration leadership has made counterproductive cuts to the Veterans Crisis line.
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