Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"I want to applaud the Army for taking steps towards eliminating combat exclusion policies for women by opening up over 20,000 combat engineer and associated skill positions to female soldiers in June."

"We have a real challenge here with retaliation."

"I do hope you will focus every effort to make sure our best and brightest and all of our best and brightest are serving."

"I also want to associate myself with the remarks from Senator Ernst, Hirono, and McCaskill about sexual assault in the military and how important it is for this committee that we solve that problem."