. >> chairman stuttsman, thank you for the opportunity to share our thoughts on the president's recent executive order addressing consumer protection concerns for today's student veterans. in this time i ask the committee to refer to my full prepared station. recent senate investigations and gao reports that some schools make a concerted effort to attract veterans into their programs with no intention of providing quality education. the vfw has seen numerous efforts from both congress and the military to scale back educational benefit programs which is why we continue to fight for the landmark education for veterans. the vfw has worked diligently to improve student schools who may have been victims of fraud, waste or abuse. in around the vfw co-authored a letter. we are glad to see that everyone listened to our collective voice. today we also applaud the president in taking a boltd first step in making sure that veterans receive the quality education we promised. the executive order is naturally subject to state law which means that bills must be passed in a timely matter so that our -