Jackie Speier: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Duncan of Tennessee). The Clerk will report the amendment. The…”

I thank the gentlewoman for her powerful comments. On top of everything else, we passed one law which was the Hyde amendment, that said you can't use Federal funds for medical abortions, so Medicaid was not made available for that purpose…

This is so egregious. And I think the American people need to sit back for a moment and think about as something like that happened in their home, how would they feel their sanctuary.

I am horrified at the utter lack of medical privacy servicewomen face when pregnant.

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.