Until we have that higher level command and we hold a commander accountable for their career for failing to manage their forces, we are never going to get there.

I believe the military takes this problem seriously, but it is clear that leadership needs to address this threat with renewed urgency.

Such extraordinary courage and such painful memories that you had to live through once again, but in so doing you have provided us with a great deal of understanding of how ubiquitous this issue is.

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida. I am going to end, Madam Speaker, with two cases because they are both egregious in their own right. One is about Irene Morissette, an 87-year-old Catholic nun. Now think about this for a minute. An…

Actually, no, I don't. It sounds like someone talking about repairing one's car, but, you know . . .

Well, again, the lack of fairness, because that particular arbitrator is chosen each time. That arbitrator is probably chosen because he or she finds in favor of the company, and the result is that fairness is thrown out the window.

I thank the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) for her comments on this Special Order. As she said at the end, she is one of the loudest voices to make sure there is justice in this country. Madam Speaker, we could tell many more…

Well, because there is no justice. Oftentimes, as we have pointed out, these arbitration claims end up benefiting the company as opposed to the individual. So few of them actually result in claims being paid out to the consumer or the…

Oftentimes it does. In one of the cases that our colleague from New York reflected on, it was costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case I am going to speak about, the patient, the client at the nursing home had to pay…

This legislation, and again, they are marking it up right now in the Judiciary Committee, is going to return to the consumer, return to the employee, the opportunity to not sign a forced arbitration agreement when they are at the most…

A doctor's office. I am about to tell a story about a nursing home. Here is a patient in a nursing home who gets violated, and then there is this arbitration clause that prevents any kind of relief for that particular person who was a…

So this is a consumer who went to get a package of three massages at Massage Envy?