“We spend about $10 million per hour in the Afghanistan war and right now we are losing a soldier every day to suicide. Shifting an hour’s worth of war funding to the fight of preventing soldier suicides is the least we can do.”

— Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., on the passage of an amendment he co-sponsored boosting Pentagon suicide-prevention funding by $10 million in next year’s military budget.

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