In my opinion, this committee commits a massive injustice by trying to pretend that the views of millions of women across this country are meaningless.

I understand the position of the religious community on this issue.

Will you provide the committee with a copy of the FOIA information that you provided to EPIC?

But in a very real sense, the entire system failed her, from orders of protection that are meaningless and can't stop bullets to women being asked in South Carolina to go represent themselves in domestic violence court, to inadequate…

Lynn Hawkins, through grants, Mr. Chairman--through grants--transformed our approach to violence against women, training law enforcement, training prosecutors, training magistrate judges, training pastors to view domestic violence as a…

We cannot continue to take this work for granted.

I know that in order to win a discrimination complaint, there must be evidence and there must be witnesses.

Today, 47% of FAMS believe that retaliation is part and parcel of the FAMS workplace.

The Government of Egypt has taken numerous actions which have directly escalated the situation, calling into question its commitment to the principles of democratic governance.

the CPI does not measure the change of future costs.

The current crisis surrounding the December 29 raids on several NGOs are deeply, deeply disturbing.

So our relationship with Pakistan must be based on the realistic assessment that ISI's relationship with the Haqqani network and other organizations will probably not change.

Secretary Panetta publicly stated that Israel will decide in April, May, or June whether to attack Iran's nuclear facilities or not. Do you agree with that?

We are seeing a very intriguing kind of situation evolve here.

I think in terms of governance and the ability of the ANSF, which we are striving hard to train up, there are some indications that that is having success, but I think the Afghan Government will continue to require assistance from the West.

I only wish the American people could know the full extent of what our Intelligence Community does to keep us safe.

I do not see a compelling answer to this question at this time.

the rulers in Iran clearly pose a more direct threat to us than many would have assumed just a year ago.