I am saddened that this body is descending down a fiscally irresponsible path, a path to trillion-dollar deficits, a path to mortgaging the future for my children and yours. To be clear, what this massive spending bill includes is a 14.6…

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate…

In the 9-years that I've been in the Senate, I've never heard as moving a testimony as the testimony you've given this morning.

I believe that what we're trying to do right now is a much more humane approach to dealing with families who are struggling with a disease.

I don't understand why Members of Congress want to trash the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It is the one glue that holds our military together.

Senior leader misconduct is an extraordinarily important issue, and I want to thank the witnesses for their candor.

So, effectively, if somebody got a letter of admonition, forced to retire, reduced in rank in that retirement, it is literally the equivalent of a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, am I correct?

So it is a career killer. So that person is not going to get promoted.

It is somewhat a little bit offensive to suggest that the institution is unprofessional or somehow broken because it discovers its own problems.

Forty percent of my senior official cases are caught up in reprisal because they basically have held somebody accountable.

I think we have got to do something dramatic to shift the culture.

I think one of the things that I would like to see, Mr. Chairman, is that we take the time to make sure that everyone is being treated fairly in the military.

There have been a number of Members who have resigned or are retiring as a result of sexual harassment, not sexual assault, here.

We want to have is a system that we--apparently we do not have right now--where we can expeditious--more expeditiously discipline officers in substantiated cases.

We have a huge problem in our academies, and I think we have a huge problem in our services.

If we could get some help in that particular area, that would help on the resource piece as well.

I will pass that information on to Lamont, although I disagree with your reading.

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