Washington, July 22 -- Congressman Michael McCaul issued the following press release:

Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Emeritus Michael McCaul (R-Texas) took to the House floor to urge his colleagues to pass an NDAA amendment he has championed alongside its author, Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas), to increase veterans' access to neuroplastogen treatments like ibogaine.

Full Remarks:

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your great work on this National Defense Authorization Bill. As always, you've delivered.

Mr. Speaker, every day our nation loses 17 veterans to suicide. These are men and women who survived combat, but then lost to a quiet and longer war against the invisible wounds that they carried with the...