Political Quotes

“I ask to be notified when there is 2 minutes remaining. All of the arguments we have heard today are technical arguments, arguments about why we can't possibly do this. But the victims and the survivors of sexual assault have been walking this Congress for more than 1 year, asking that we do something to protect them, to give them a hope for justice. It is not whether anyone in this Chamber trusts the chain of command. The people who do not trust the chain of command are the victims. Even General Amos has admitted that. He said the reason why a female marine does not come forward is because she does not trust the chain of command, that breach of trust. That fundamental breach of trust has been broken for victims of sexual assault. Listen to the victims. Retired Marine LCpl Jeremiah Arbogast was drugged. He was raped. He got his perpetrator to tell what happened on tape and went through trial. His perpetrator got no jail time. He saw no justice. He said: ``I joined the Marines in order to serve my country as an honorable man, instead I was thrown away like a piece of garbage.'' He attempted suicide, severed his spine, and now advocates for this measure from a wheelchair. Those are the stories we are hearing from victims over and over. Sarah Plummer, U.S.…”