Richard Blumenthal

What is shocking to me is not only that this kind of predatory abuse happened, but that it is ongoing.

Thank you. Thank you again.

I think that's a very, very important commitment, as is the commitment which I hope that you share to investigating and stopping all sexual assault.

Will you commit to scrutinize and make sure that there are no credible claims of discrimination at the Coast Guard Academy?

There is a need for multiple icebreakers to maintain a year-round presence in the high latitudes.

The U.S. needs to pay attention to what's going on in the Arctic.

Compared to the Russians, we are at a severe disadvantage in the Arctic. We have two icebreakers there. They have 40, with another 11 in development.

We are strongly committed to do anything and everything to make that museum a reality.

I hope that you will sustain and enhance the commitment of the Coast Guard to the museum.

This funding was intended to help people not to be mired in a sea of bureaucratic red tape.

Local governments have been financially struggling to recover from Hurricane Irma.

That is unacceptable that FEMA has not reimbursed them.

Protecting consumers is critical to me and a key focus of my work in the Senate.

I assume you agree that the VA should not be contracting with organizations that fail those kinds of accreditation measures?

I led a bicameral, bipartisan effort to unanimously pass what came to known as the Miller-Blumenthal Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act.

I have led the Justice for Servicemembers and Veterans Act 2017. It is bipartisan, bicameral legislation that ensures that servicemembers and veterans employment and reemployment rights are effectively enforced under USERRA.

I have no plans to privatize the VBA.

Backlogs have plagued the VA appeals process for some time, and they have left thousands of veterans in limbo.

The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 takes some important steps in the right direction.

A number of Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups sent a letter to you yesterday that noted 'your company's aggressive practices . . . could silence human rights activists and citizen journalists in Vietnam.'

It's also clear that Facebook has lagged behind other technology leaders in this area and that you continue to face serious ongoing human rights challenges.

I was glad when Facebook finally joined other major technology companies and became a member of the Global Network Initiative in 2013.

I appreciate your commitment, in the context of Myanmar, to dedicate resources to take down hate speech within 24 hours.

How can you dedicate, and will you dedicate, resources to make sure such hate speech is taken down within 24 hours?

I hope that we can cooperate on this kind of measure as well.