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On the recordMarch 7, 2016
I would like to work with you on a child care center proposal to actually write language for this year's NDAA because I think it is fundamentally one of the biggest problems about why some of the men and women we have trained for 10 years are leaving the military because right when childbearing years happen, they do not have the resources for affordable day care and they cannot manage their child care responsibilities.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand emphasizes the need for affordable child care to retain trained military personnel.

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