"If confirmed, do I have your commitment to work with me to reform and improve upon the way that TRICARE cares for special needs dependents?"
"I receive the monthly suicide data and am saddened to see the number of servicemembers who fall through the cracks in the system."
"The Strategy underscores the U.S. Government's commitment to preventing and responding to gender-based violence."
"In the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013, I worked to ensure the second WMD civil support teams for both New York and Florida were authorized, and that funds have been appropriated."
"To have the DACOWITS panel, who has been investigating these issues for 20 years, to make a recommendation to the Secretary of Defense that not only should you take the decisionmaking for all serious ..."
"Those tools remain within the commander's purview entirely. That commander is solely responsible for good order and discipline."
"A judge advocate outside the chain of command will be looking at a case through a different lens than a military commander."
"When Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense some 20-odd years ago, he said there was zero tolerance for sexual assault in the military."
"You want nothing else because if you drive cases forward because you feel like it or because you do not like the perpetrator or do not like the accused or really like the victim, you are using bias."
"What authorities will be needed to keep the U.S. military on the cutting edge of cyber?"
"Men and women should have the opportunity to overcome their mental disorders or their mental health challenges and shouldn't be stigmatized."