{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davidyoung.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/speaker-ryan-signs-youngs-veterans-crisis-line-improvements-legislation", "Speaker Ryan Signs Young's Veterans Crisis Line Improvements Legislation", "2016-11-18", "2016", "2016-11", "Republican", "House", "IA", "David Young", "Y000066", "davidyoung.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Speaker Ryan Signs Young's Veterans Crisis Line Improvements Legislation\nLegislation Heads to President's Desk\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0-\u00a0Iowa Congressman David Young released the following statement after House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday signed Congressman Young's No Veterans Crisis Line Call Should Go Unanswered Act (H.R.5392), legislation to make critical improvements to this mental health tool relied upon by our nation's veterans. The legislation heads to the president's desk.\n\"I appreciate Speaker Ryan's support of this important legislation for our veterans, as well as the unanimous support it has received from my colleagues in both the House and the Senate,\"\u00a0Congressman Young said.\u00a0\"Our veterans deserve quality mental health resources, and my bill works to ensure the Veterans Crisis Line, one of those tools, is operating effectively to provide help and assistance to our veterans. I urge the president to sign this bill into law without delay.\"\nThe No Veterans Crisis Line Call Should Go Unanswered Act seeks to provide necessary responsiveness and performance improvements to the Veterans Crisis Line, which is the confidential, toll free hotline for veterans seeking suicide prevention and crisis resources help from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responders.\n\u00a0  Speaker Ryan signs the No Veterans Crisis Line Call Should Go Unanswered Act. (Photo credit: Speaker Ryan's office)\nSpeaker Ryan discussed Congressman Young's Veterans Crisis Line improvements bill during his weekly press briefing.\u00a0Click here\u00a0or on the image below to watch.\nREMARKS\n\u201cThis week, Congress gave final approval to legislation that will help veterans in need. H.R. 5392 requires the VA [to] respond to calls to its crisis hotlines in a timely manner.\n\u201cThis is one of those bills that should not even be necessary, but sadly\u0097and tragically\u0097it is.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cEarlier this year, we learned that more than one out of three calls to the VA crisis hotline were going unanswered.\u00a0Imagine a veteran calling for help and then getting sent to voicemail. There is no excuse for that.\u00a0\u201cThis bill, authored by my colleague David Young, requires that the VA make improvements so that veterans actually get the help when they need the help.\u00a0\u201cAs part of our Better Way agenda, we propose building a truly 21st-century VA. And this will be a priority of the new unified Republican government.\u00a0But for now, this initiative is good news ahead of Thanksgiving, a time to be grateful for all the men and women who have fought for us.\u201d\u00a0To view Speaker Ryan's entire weekly press briefing, visit his website\u00a0www.speaker.gov.\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://davidyoung.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/speaker-ryan-signs-youngs-veterans-crisis-line-improvements-legislation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7672269605100155, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}