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On the recordMarch 4, 2013
If one in five women say they are serving in the military and they are receiving unwanted sexual contact, that is a huge problem regardless of what you are looking at in the public sector.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand emphasizes the severity of sexual assault in the military.

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