"I believe, in the committee on a number of the options and alternatives that have been put forward in various bills."
"There are enough specifications in the UCMJ to address it now."
"There are few prosecutions. There are fewer convictions."
"My question is the key word you used was 'can.' Should that be 'shall'? In other words, should it be an automatic proposition if the JAG officer disagrees that it goes up, not a further discretionary ..."
"What would you think of the idea of making retaliation itself a punishable offense?"
"Until you create some objectivity in the process where there is no bias and influence and prejudice against the victim, the lower-ranking individual in the situation, you are not going to solve this p..."
"Should retaliation be an offense? If someone retaliates against someone for reporting, should that, in itself, be some kind of punishable offense?"
"I take it that your opinion is similar to Ms. Parrish that the structural solution is to take this decision out of the chain of command, and you feel that will make a substantive difference in the amo..."
"I would just suggest that this issue of retaliation is significant."
"Senator Gillibrand has suggested that we ought to take this out of the chain of command because that is a problem in the prosecution."
"I think it is an important one."