I hope the Navy and Marine Corps will fully embrace these additional accountability measures and will fully implement the recommendations, including increasing communications with residents regarding their rights and their options.

I feel that urgency.

I am appalled by it as much as you are, and I am going to continue to try to find ways to solve this problem.

2022-level funding would put that at risk.

We talk about prevalence of sexual assaults in the military, harassment, unwanted contact every year, and it doesn't seem like any substantive change has been made.

if we are wondering why they have a recruitment and retention problem, this would be one of the most glaring examples of that reason.

It is frustrating, especially as we embark on travel to go see our military infrastructure around the world, and we talk with frustrated military servicemembers who show us decrepit, aging, unsafe infrastructure that they have to try to…

That absolutely disastrous cut would slow the pace of new construction of housing and would prolong instances of costly or inadequate housing for military families.

Okay. Do you have metrics that will measure whether you're meeting those goals? Because frankly, you are speaking in very broad rosy, you know, summarizing terms.

And let's be clear, this is not just unwanted touching. I mean, there are too many cases that are much more serious than that.

I look forward to continuing our partnership, as you mentioned.

I think we all agree that we shouldn't have any servicemembers that qualify for SNAP.

$20.3 billion in mandatory funding through the Toxic Exposures Fund ensures our commitment to the PACT Act and to our veterans.

The President requested $305 million for Army family housing construction, and that's nearly $136 million increase.

I am generally pleased with the overall direction of this funding request, but there are certain specific areas that I do wish to cover.

The issue of sexual assault in the military remains dire, and the problem only seems to be getting worse.

And lastly, are you also just balancing, you know, managing clinician buy-in, which, you know, obviously you need to get, with their interest in optimization and specifications for their specific needs?

As Ted said, sexual assault has absolutely no place in the United States Navy.

But we are having taxpayer--we are asking for taxpayer dollars to do what they should have?

It is disgusting. Have you been through any of those housing facilities?

I hope that holds true as we move forward. And I urge my Republican colleges to take a step back and look at the real-world human impact of cutting back to fiscal year 2022 levels.

I think we all know this would have extremely detrimental effects on government programs that affect all Americans.

That kind of despair and losing a potential lifer is really troubling.

I mean, you can have the best system, but if you do not have clinician buy-in, we are still going to have a problem with adoption.

We must continue to build on this and protect our servicemembers.