"These are the same tired arguments used by the gun lobby to prevent meaningful change after Sandy Hook, after Parkland."
"All I am asking my colleagues to do is open your hearts and listen, and I hope we still have enough humanity in this body to do this."
"I commend the ranking member for making this a priority."
"I actually think Congress has really not done a great job of the oversight it needs to do on PME"
"Thank you both. Admiral, does the Department survey PME graduates about their experience with the program and whether it prepares them for future jobs?"
"Is it anonymous?"
"How about the supervisors' views of whether PMEs sufficiently prepare their direct reports?"
"Would you share some of those surveys with the committee, please?"
"So the widespread perception that it's hard to earn an A at JPME but even harder to get a C..."
"What are you doing at your level to make sure that this is, in fact, not lost in the process?"
"But let's say it doesn't happen. Let's say it just falls off. Who then is accountable to make sure that that is included in the curricula?"
"I think, as we are seeing in many of our other entities, building a Russia and China focus is critical to building the kind of talent we want and the leadership we want."