05/12/2009
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"These are priorities for our Nation. That's what the Senators of both parties tell me they want."
"The Coast Guard reported 141 incidents of sexual assaults in 2012. The number was up from 83 in 2011 and 75 in 2010."
"We can't have everything we want, but $2.5 billion to maintain the fleet, to accomplish or at least try to meet the targets in the mission, is far different than $950 million."
"Let me begin where you began, because it is very troubling to many of us in the Senate and House who have been following story after story about the sexual assaults happening within the Department of ..."