Jackie Speier: “I am putting the academies on notice. We are putting all of you in the situation where it is time for us to recognize…”

We must restore local control to the community.

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

And I would also say, Under Secretary, while you are doing that education with women who are in boot camp, we really need it for the men as well, because, truly, we keep losing sight of the fact that there are two in this process.

I thank the gentlewoman for her service then and for her service now. Her comments about young servicewomen just out of high school or college, who find themselves pregnant and seek an abortion, reminds me of a story that I heard at a base…