I agree with everything my colleague Mr. Sweet has just said. We made it quite clear that the bill of rights was a complement to the ombudsman position. The ombudsman position is the position that has the power to actually move forward with issues that veterans are not satisfied with.
I think everyone at this table has been around long enough to realize that legislation, as was just discussed a moment ago, oftentimes takes months or years. As we've discussed at this table before, for the veterans to whom we're referring--the traditional veterans--many of them don't have months or years. They've been waiting a long time for some sort of backup from the government and we've just supplied that backup.
The actual club, as I called it before, or the heavy-duty portion of this is the ombudsman position. I personally consider this to be a living document. I'm open to listening to any other input that's coming forward.
I also recognize that the post-traumatic stress syndrome issue was very important and that there needed to be a hearing on that, and so it went twice as long as it was going to go.
We also made a promise to veterans that we're going to review the health care act. I'm hoping this committee will concentrate their efforts on the health care act. Let's move forward once again in the best interests of veterans, as we did with the ombudsman position.