Michael Garcia actually said...

"I would encourage you to look at my RAISE Act, which takes the starting salary of an E1 from $22,000 and brings it up to $31,000."

"We passed a piece of legislation back in December of 2022, that was actually signed into law by the President in January of 2023 on the Active-Duty side called the Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act..."

"In California last week, and we brought this up in an earlier hearing with SECNAV as well, and we have had discussions with SecDef about it as well."

"I would like to expand that and enable that on the authorizing side with HASC to get that to apply to the Reserve side."