"I spent, actually, before coming to Congress, some time working with our State legislature..."
"I am going to take something the chairman said, and I hope he doesn't mind, and use it out of context. So all means all. I am going to go back to none means none."
"I disagree that there ought to, still, be any effort not to hold them accountable based on what the Federal law says."
"Under Federal statute, charities cannot engage in any political activity, correct?"
"And political campaign activities are not a (c)(4) social welfare, not part of their mission, correct?"
"Can you give me some specifics. So that is going to be counseling? Are there therapeutic services, an opportunity for suggestions about how to improve those processes, involvement in the services to t..."
"And how often are those reports or suggestions, is that annually? Do you do it quarterly, and I would suggest that we have more access to that kind of information in this committee, Mr. Chairman."
"But that information is available quarterly, or do you do kind of an annual report?"
"the Department of Defense has an obligation to do absolutely everything that it possibly can do to be open, transparent, comforting, supportive."
"I cannot imagine the pain of losing a family member or a loved one in this kind of an incident."
"And given that each one of these tragedies is very difficult to accept, we want to absolutely evaluate it in the context of mitigating for the future but also supporting men and women and, again, the ..."