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>> in terms of what happened in the house, you and senator warren and others have been trying to stop this, but they made a lot of noise and a lot of people very nervous yesterday. what is the status among democrats in the senate? >> rachel, this is a bad bill for a number of reasons. you talked about the outrage of repealing a section, by the way, whose title is prohibition against government bailouts, in other words, they will be able to make risky investments, and they lose, the taxpayers bail them out. that's not the only objectionable aspect of the bill. this bill sl about a trillion-doll...

That our son clay actually struggled with. one of those gaps is it allowed the va to hire additional psychiatrists and psychologist and additional caregivers. there's a real -- clay was in houston, texas, which has one of the largest veteran's community in the nation, and there are three psychiatrists serving that. my understanding of psychiatric therapy is that it's talk therapy, and if people need drugs to get stabilized, you give them drugs, but the drugs are not the permanent solution, and so three psychiatrists in that large population, that is going to cause a lot of problems and delays ...

Partners who would offer additional therapeutic types of things, programs outside the va, and things like different activities, hunting, fishing, all kinds of different programs in conjunction with what the va does will help these veterans heal and become a more holistic. it allows also a very important thing, and right now veterans have to present whatever their maladeis within five years, and often symptoms don't present themselves within that time, and it allows a one-year period of time from veterans suffering from this to come back in and