Jackie Speier

Not in gender, though.

We want the Army to look like our Nation. In 2040, our Nation will be majority minority.

Please provide the average cost of female uniforms compared to male uniforms.

I think you need to go to girls' high schools.

Do your services have research groups equivalent to the Marine Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning? What projects have they completed within the last three years? What are they currently working on?

Please provide the gender and ethnicity of recruiters across the services and in any higher DOD headquarters activity that is related to recruiting activities.

Our democracy is stronger when we all understand the true cost of war waged on our behalf.

I would agree, you could have gotten that a little bit better, because in some respects it reinforces the notion that women aren't really welcomed in the Marines.

Actually, most of you could do a lot better in the officer area than in the enlisted.

Does your service research how the traits you look for in recruits and retention correlate with success throughout a service member's military career?

I have been working on the issue of sexual assault in the military now for over 9 years.

So the question becomes, if it is basically stagnant, is that actually savings, because we are not seeing a cost of living increase?

Good afternoon, everyone. We will call this hearing of the Military Personnel Subcommittee on Military Health System reform to order.

I am not confident that we are providing the level of mental health services we need.

It is not a good sign that none of you are responding here.

Well, what happens if those billets are mental health professionals? I mean, one of the issues that we have talked about a lot today is the fact that we need more mental health providers.

I want to know where that money is going.

Let me also make note of the fact that when we were visiting the bases, it was astonishing to both of us that there was such a high incidence of autism among the families of service members.

What we have seen since the budget year 2015 is an actual reduction in the cost of providing military health by about at least a billion dollars.

I think that you have touched on an issue that probably deserves having a briefing on.

I mean, we do have the facts in front of us. We have a whistle-blower complaint that the president himself corroborated with the summary of the phone call that establishes that there was bribery.

Because they care more about being re-elected than they do about the state of the country.

Well, much like Attorney General Barr put out his summary before the Mueller report came out, the Republicans are putting out the rebuttal before the actual document comes out from the Intelligence Committee. It is intended to confuse the…

You know, Ambassador Sondland sat in that hearing room and said, yes, there was a quid pro quo. That was their witness. The appointment by the president of Mr. Sondland to his post and he's saying there was a quid pro quo.

I think it's poppycock. And I think it is once again an effort by the president and all of the members of the House and Senate on the Republican side to try and weave a falsehood into a truism.