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Kirsten Gillibrand: “This is the beginning of a much longer conversation, a conversation that we need to have not just as a committee in the…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2013
This is the beginning of a much longer conversation, a conversation that we need to have not just as a committee in the Senate, but as a Nation.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand calls for a national conversation on military sexual assault.

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