Jackie Speier

We have a high percentage of unintended pregnancies in the military.

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.

The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee will come to order.

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I feel that you have a moral obligation to inform that population. We have to save these lives.

I agree with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez--because the system allows you to do it.

I hope that you will take my request seriously and come back to us with a campaign that will engage the whole community.

Childcare is a huge problem on every one of our bases.

Chairwoman Speier--thank you for the question.

The FY19 NDAA included DOPMA reforms that give the services broader leeway and discretion in managing officers and their career paths.

You don't have to admit liability to do the right thing.

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.

It is important once we create these commissions, they come up with these far-reaching recommendations, that we actually act upon them.

I think you are being very belligerent, and I do not think that is conducive to us working together.

And my job is to save lives, and that is what I am trying to do every day.

I have oversight role.

So, it is important once we create these commissions, they come up with these far-reaching recommendations, that we actually act upon them.

Can we as a committee receive from you a complete response to each of the 56 recommendations whether or not you have taken action, and if not, why not, so that we can have a full understanding of whether or not you have implemented those…

Well, if you are trying to do that every day, I would think you would want to work with the committees that have the authority to provide you with the resources to do your job so you can save more lives.

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I worry that there aren't enough sophisticated medical professionals with gynecological training in the military.

So the first scan actually did detect the error. It just wasn't--you weren't informed, and you weren't referred.

This includes standardizing patient experience, improving quality of care, and increasing access to care--reforms that are essential to fixing the types of issues highlighted by your cases.