Mazie Hirono

I would like to ask all of you, we have been talking about coordinated community response... would you all agree that we can do better with bringing all the parties together?

We do not necessarily know the full extent of this problem in either the military side or the civilian side, because just as sexual assault is underreported, probably this is also underreported.

So, as with sexual assault, we want to encourage reporting in the civilian community as well as in the military community.

It is very clear that this is a very complicated situation. It is very complicated, with no easy solutions.

It has been mentioned by all of us many times that the resources are scarce.

And, Nanci, you are right that the military does have an early release of dependents which is similar to return the dependents to a much safer situation.

The military is concerned about how to deal with it, and one of the responses has been to allow for restrictive reporting.

Do you think a more formal way of communicating with the military would help in Hawaii than what exists right now?

So, for clarification then, the Attorney General actually designates within the Molokai shelter who will get what amount?

Whatever the Attorney General funding decisions are, they do the decisions.

As people are navigating their way to safety, there are lots of encounters with other agencies.

No, we need to be on the same page, because this is a really tough community-wide problem.

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Because the resources are getting actually less for a problem that defies easy solutions.

Are there not some very specific stressors that military personnel face that may--that would not be faced by the civilian population?

Because domestic violence knows no boundaries applied.

Thank you. Mr. McDowell, you have testified that the antitrust laws would be adequate to protect the consumers.

Clearly consumers feel that net neutrality is important because all of us have heard from hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of our constituents who have said, make sure that we are not going to create an environment where they are going…

Do you see evidence that this kind of effort is working, that these tribal leaders that have been marginalized or excluded are now going to trust what we're doing?

What makes us believe that, when we train-and-equip them, that they will turn their attention to fighting ISIL?

You and the President have made a very strong case that ISIL, if left unchecked, will be a threat to Europe and to the United States.

Your report put forth a number of recommendations. I am particularly looking at Recommendations 17 to 23, and the VA has said that they will meet those recommendations by September 2015.

Can you talk a little bit more about how a system as vast as the VA can make cultural changes?

The revelations over wait times at the Department of Veterans Affairs and other systemic problems at the VA have severely shaken the trust that veterans, their families, and the general public should have in the VA health care system.

Just following up on the previous question, Mr. Griffin, would you agree that attribution of negligence as a result of delay in care as a causation of death is basically an adjudicatorial process that needs to be undertaken?