Claire McCaskill

We wish to encourage such individuals to expose waste, fraud, and other improper behavior.

So you are saying, Ms. Parrish, that in the medical facilities on bases they do not have a rape protocol?

Are you fricking kidding me? That that is somehow relevant to whether or not he crawled in bed with her and tried to have sex with her?

Are all of these victims being offered emergency contraception when they are going to medical facilities?

I recommend you read it because it was astoundingly ignorant.

I would tell you--and I know I am out of time, I just want to say this on the record.

The status quo is not acceptable.

I think that is important for our consideration as we work on the markup of the defense authorization bill.

Lieutenant General Harding, you just answered Senator McCaskill's question, saying you think character should be considered whether or not we go to trial.

General Odierno, you said the military is built on a bedrock of trust. Crimes cut to the heart of military readiness.

Not every single commander necessarily wants women in the force.

In Israel, in the last 5 years because they have prosecuted high-level cases, you know what has increased by 80 percent? Reporting.

General Dempsey, you said the same thing. You said that you might argue that we have become too forgiving because if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is…

Now Secretary Hagel has said the most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed the crime.

I need to know how many cases you all have taken that civilian prosecutors declined to prosecute.

At the beginning of the trial process, deciding whether or not there is sufficient evidence to support the charges, the character of the defendant should be irrelevant.

This has been done before by our allies to great effect.

I think part of the problem here is you all have mushed together two issues in ways that are not helpful to successful prosecution.

There is not--it is not relevant as to whether or not somebody raped a woman how good a pilot he was.

I find it very refreshing to find someone who is stepping up like you are in this position.

I want to thank the staff for their hard work on this. I certainly want to thank Senator Johnson.

We have to make sure that we have a tax structure that supports those goals.

We are capable of classy bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate.

Let us assume we simplify our Tax Code and let us assume that we get it down, we clear out all the underbrush, we take away some of the goodies and some sectors of our economy.

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