Kelly Ayotte

I don't think any of us will ever forget the images in the soccer stadiums with the Taliban and what they did to women.

I thank my colleague Senator McCaskill, as well as Senator Fischer. The Senate voted 97-0--unanimously--to support the Victims Protection Act. This act builds on important work that was done in the Defense authorization bill to ensure that…

I thank the Senator from Missouri, and I thank the Senator from New York for her passionate and important debate. Let's not forget the work we have already done in the Defense authorization, ensuring that every victim will have his or her…

Our reporting has actually--since 2013, in the Marine Corps it is up 80 percent and in the Army it is up 50 percent. That is even before the legislation that we have all worked on to have special victims counsels for every single victim…

Let me just say, this panel took on the key question. That is why we are doing this. I am doing this because I believe victims will get justice and there will be more accountability. I want to hold commanders more accountable for not only…

I thank the Senator from Missouri for her leadership. She is correct. She has prosecuted more of these cases than I think anyone in this body, so I appreciate her leadership. Under the system that is put forward under the Gillibrand…

I thank the Chair. I will defer to my colleagues, but the bottom line is this: We are speechless by what Ambassador Rice said last Sunday. We need to have her testimony before the Congress to get to the bottom of why these…

I thank the Senator from South Carolina and the Senator from Arizona for everything they have done on this important issue and to get to the truth. Frankly, I will quote the Senator from Arizona from last weekend, when he was asked what…

I come to the floor today to talk about a grave threat to the United States of America, a grave threat to the world, and a grave threat to our friend and ally, the State of Israel; that is, the threat of Iran's nuclear weapons program. As…

From a national security perspective, in terms of ensuring we have the technological and industrial capacity in the United States to provide our troops the best and most advanced weapons in the world and in terms of promoting competition…

One of them is fragmentation in DOD's three key acquisition decisionmaking processes: requirements determination, resource allocation, and the acquisition management system.

I would like a way to keep my best people longer, the best program managers, and I would like a way to reward people who do an exceptional job.

I too would enjoy the Russians coming before the U.S. courts for our justice.

The Commission also suggested that shifting approximately 36,600 personnel to the Reserve component could yield savings of perhaps $2.0 billion per year in manpower costs with no reduction in Total Force end strength.

I think that this Commission report was very well done.

I fully agree with the comments that have been made not only by Senator Chambliss but others around the table.

How much of this increased reporting can be attributed to the SVC program?

DOD sexual assault reports are significantly up in fiscal year 2013.

When he was asked about the A-10, I think he made clear that those who are on the ground prefer the A-10.

I think of all the issues that we hopefully can work on is this issue of making sure that there's enough training.

I think this is a very important issue that we should not overlook and I am hopeful that this committee will address.

But the commitment now, we need to send that signal to the Taliban with the elections coming up this weekend, with the fighting season beginning there, that we remain committed to ensuring the security of Afghanistan in a way that will not…

I believe it's very important that the President announces what our follow-on commitment is going to be in Afghanistan.

We already have the TTPs for the A-10, don't we?

The A-10 is very important to us.