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Jackie Speier is a former U.S. Representative from California, serving in the House of Representatives from January 3, 2008, until January 15, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented California's 14th congressional district. Speier is known for her advocacy on issues such as women's rights, healthcare, and gun control. She gained national attention for her work on the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights and her efforts to address military sexual assault. Speier's political career began in the California State Assembly, where she served from 2002 to 2006 before moving to the U.S. Congress.
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 414, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $40,000,000) (reduced by $40,000,000)''…
Not one of them was going to be able to leave the program and go to a home. They were all homeless when they were going to leave the facility.
I hope that today's hearing will bring renewed attention to the problem of military suicide.
I am concerned that the high rate of suicide among service members and veterans will soon become a fact of life and that we are beginning to accept it as a natural consequence of military service.
We must do everything we can to break the chain of suicide that has afflicted our military and veteran community.
The lack of responsiveness by the housing management firms that we hire to accommodate... is very problematic.
The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee will come to order.
The FY19 NDAA included DOPMA reforms that give the services broader leeway and discretion in managing officers and their career paths.
The lack of responsiveness by the housing management firms that we hire to accommodate... is very problematic.
The conditions of lead, mold, asbestos that hasn't been addressed is a serious problem.
I encourage you all to look at the Navy's program, because they have a lower--much lower rate of unintended pregnancies.
I am going to give a shout-out to the Navy, which seems to have done a great job in some of these issue areas.
Let me just say how impressed I am that you have recognized the importance of the family in addition to the service member.
I hope that you will take my request seriously and come back to us with a campaign that will engage the whole community.
I feel that you have a moral obligation to inform that population. We have to save these lives.
How do you explain charging $907 for something that they were able to reverse engineer for $500?
That to me is a cop-out. Either you are willing to repay the taxpayers of this country or you are not.
This is the kind of hearing that this committee should be having, so I applaud the chairman and ranking member for doing so.
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