Robert Dornan: “when the Republicans took the leadership helm of this, the world's greatest legislative body, and with unanimity looked…”

“when the Republicans took the leadership helm of this, the world's greatest legislative body, and with unanimity looked forward to the leadership of the gentleman from South Carolina, Navy Capt. Floyd Spence, at the chairmanship of this committee, we reduced the subcommittee chairmanships from six to five. We figured that each of the five areas of responsibility, procurement, R&D, readiness, personnel, and installations could do their own oversight. So when the five subcommittee chairman met, we said how can we refer to ourselves with one term? I suggested we were going to be the marshals for Sheriff Spence. And as the marshal of military personnel, I am very, very proud of the Democrats on our subcommittee, of our staff on both sides, particularly the hard work John Chapla, our chief of staff, and Michael Higgins and Donna Hoffmeier have done on our staff in all the areas that we rather quickly call quality of life. Now, I have taken a lot of heat and some heavy-duty press, big artillery, on what I tried to do about the culture of degradation in our military. I would tell the gentleman from California [Mr. Dellums] directly, and I know this appeals not only to his keen intellect but also to his heart, young Americans on Okinawa are going to spend the rest of their adult lives rotting in Japanese prisons because they raped not a teenager but a 12-year-old, and kidnaped her and tied her up and degraded her. That must stop.…”