Mike Garcia: “I think getting that dual income, allowing the spouse to be able to stay in the workforce, but then the collateral…”

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.

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.

Last year, we missed our recruitment numbers, retention numbers by a net 41,000 personnel, recruits across all the services.

I thank the Congressman for yielding. I appreciate the gentleman having this opportunity for us to speak. Mr. Speaker, we all know that the Hatch Act is here to keep partisan politics out of our government. It has been in place to over 80…