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Veterans and advocates press committee on mental‑health care and claim backlogs
Summary
Witnesses including the Veterans of Foreign Wars and veteran Timothy Page urged the committee to press Congress and the VA on mental‑health care access and long disability‑claim wait times, citing thousands of veteran suicides since 9/11, continuing wait‑time averages and calls for better veteran‑focused mental‑health staffing.
Witnesses and veterans pressed the Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs Committee to advance congressional and administrative fixes to veteran mental‑health care and disability‑claims processing.
David Root, speaking for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged support for Senate Resolution 21, saying depression and post‑traumatic stress disorder are "the top 2 most common health…
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