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Vital Assessment Act

Floor Speech

By: Mike Bost
By: Mike Bost
Date: Nov. 16, 2021
Location: Washington, DC


Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5516, as amended, the VITAL Assessment Act.

This bill is sponsored by, as was said, our newest member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Congressman Jake Ellzey. With this bill, he is fulfilling the promise he made on the campaign trail to put the needs of our fellow veterans front and center. His bill will make a number of improvements to the VA's Veterans Integration to Academic Learning, or the VITAL program.

VITAL provides mental health support to student veterans on college campuses. Preventing veteran suicide and supporting veterans as they transition out of the military are two of our committee's highest goals, and this bill would get us closer to realizing both of them.

I urge every Member to support H.R. 5516, as amended, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close. I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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