Jackie Speier

Did Mr. Trump tell you to offer Vladimir Putin a free penthouse?

You need to know that Mr. Trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations.

In at least 2016, the Academies and DOD considered replacing the measure of unwanted sexual contact used in the Academy survey with the UCMJ-linked measurement used in the active force workplace and gender relations survey.

Why did the Academies push back against the active force measurement? Why is the unwanted sexual contact measure preferable?

I really believe that you want to do the right thing. I also worry that we have not found the formula that is going to reduce the numbers.

So that would suggest to us that there is not the confidence in the academy leadership that their safety will be ensured if only half or less than half have confidence in it.

What I think is important for us to point to, and it is true in each of the academies, it is probably most true at the Air Force Academy, is that women who have not come forward to report do not have a high confidence that they will be…

I think one of the biggest problems is, is that leadership hears these numbers but they truly do not internalize them as a problem.

As Congresswoman Speier has very succinctly and very correctly identified, there is a huge problem with sexual assault at the academies.

One case of sexual assault, violence, or harassment is one too many.

This report is a scathing indictment of the academies' culture. We need to expand our toolbox and use both carrots and sticks to hold perpetrators accountable.

Victims report at their own peril. That is the message that is being sent, because they are more likely to face consequences than their perpetrators.

I was profoundly disturbed when I read the Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies.

I don't think any of us would have an issue with it.

I want to see uniformity of benefits for the victims.

My concern is, one of the issues that we are dealing with is this fear of retaliation.

So vast minority. It is 98 percent of those that are coming forward are telling the truth?

I would say, Mrs. Davis, that one of the things we should look at, though, with the Special Victims' Counsel, is how they are being utilized...

Do you have any thoughts on whether it is time for us to make sure that all the academies follow a similar process in terms of the kinds of resources that are available to the victim survivors?

I asked him, have you ever talked to a survivor when it wasn't an adversarial process? And he said, I don't have time for that.

When the women and the men do not feel that they can come forward and report without them suffering more consequences than their perpetrator suffers, they won't come forward.

One case of sexual assault that is not reported because of systemic problems is unacceptable.

I am putting the academies on notice. We are putting all of you in the situation where it is time for us to recognize that this is a crisis, and I intend to watch it like a hawk.

Only 12 percent of assaulted individuals formally reported.

Welcome, everyone. We are somewhat late in starting this hearing because all the women of the House and Senate take a picture every year to draw attention to women's heart health, and that is why we are all dressed in red today.