Jackie Speier: “Mr. Chairman, thank you. Thank you for holding this hearing. I thank all the witnesses for participating.”

I thank my great caucus cochair and good friend, Congresswoman Lois Frankel, for this bill. I thank the chairman for bringing this bill to the floor. I also thank the Speaker for her extraordinary work in this area. I sit here and think to…

This NDAA moves us forward in reforming the military justice system. We took sexual assault out of the chain of command last year in the NDAA. This year, we take sexual harassment out of the chain, and we require trained investigators who…

we have 102 installations right now on that map, 102 installations in the United States that will--in which the States ban, totally ban access to abortion care.

This is a very important hearing because, in fact, we are doing a benchmark review of the work of the DOD.