Rep. Gosar Effort to Improve Veterans Crisis Line Signed Into Law

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after President Obama signed into law H.R. 5325, which included a Gosar authored provision requiring the Veterans Crisis Line to provide an immediate response from a trained professional to veterans contacting this suicide hotline:

"With over 500,000 calls received in 2015, the Veterans Crisis Line has proven to be an invaluable resource for saving the lives of our nation's veterans. At a time when we are losing 22 veterans every single day to suicide, it is simply unacceptable for calls to go unanswered. Ensuring that every single veteran can rely on a trained professional to immediately help them during dark times is literally a matter of life and death. I'm extremely pleased to see my legislative effort to improve the Veterans Crisis Line become law and hope this life-saving resource for our nation's heroes will now function as Congress intended."

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