ms. wiggins doing a great job, and we had another incident two weeks ago. she was on the phone to me first when it happened, took immediate action in terms of that incident, and accepted responsibility where responsibility needed to be accepted. that is a great indication of the emphasis you, the secretary and robert, put on the issue of suicide, which we must get our arms around. it's one area where i think oversight is going to be critical for us to move the paradigm and get best practices in every va medical center in the country, soft tissue injuries are the toughest to deal with, tbi and ptsd are the legacy of the wars we fight, and suicide is the nasty side effect and not having the right follow-up on the patients. i'm going to permly dedicate my time on our committee to do the same, delve into the issues of suicide, find out where the tragedies take place, and see if we can find common threads to implement best practices in the veterans' administration so woe don't lose so many soldiers by taking their own lives. right now, we lose an average of 22 a