We wanted to feel that people would be able to come forward, and we want more to come forward.

This isn't a male or a female crime. This is a crime committed against anyone could be the victim of this in the military.

the good soldier defense has no place in determining the outcome of these cases.

this issue of special victims' counsel that Senator McCaskill and I and Senator Gillibrand and others on the committee have worked on is going to be a very important reform.

I want to thank both of you for being here and for your courage in coming before us.

this has been legislation that I worked on also with Senator Patty Murray

General Dunford, on February 13, 2014, the Karzai Government released 65 detainees from the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan.

The answer is no. Of course we don't. We don't have to burden the next generation to fix what we should have fixed from the beginning, which was unfair from the beginning. That said, I have an offset----

I have an offset that is pretty straightforward. We have two major refundable tax credits in our Tax Code, the earned income tax credit and the additional child tax credit, both of which, when you claim them, you actually get money back…

Yes, I yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

Well, that is the irony of where we find ourselves. We have people who came to the floor, even though we warned them and said this is really unfair, why are we doing this to military retirees, we should fix this now and we can find other…

The American taxpayer would save $20 billion over the next 10 years. This is about protecting the American taxpayer. Let me talk about some of the fraud that was found. In Indiana, they found 4 workers were claiming 20 children living…