Kirsten Gillibrand

In 2015, FAP counted 5,378 child abuse and neglected victims in military families, but claimed they only received reports on approximately 25 percent of the cases.

This does not appear to be happening.

I would urge you to look at what is happening in your own services and make recommendations because I would like to include them in the survey.

They are only included if they filed an unrestricted report, but they are not surveyed.

I am also concerned about spouses. Over the past few years, I have requested all files for sexual assault cases from the four major bases, one for each of the Services.

If the family isn't ready, the servicemember isn't ready, and the military as a whole is not as ready as it needs to be.

Our men and women in uniform are our greatest asset and resource.

Even good nutrition. I mean, we had a whole hearing in the Ag Committee about obesity, that so many of our recruits are coming in not physically fit and obese because our nutrition policy is not supporting fruits and vegetables and healthy…

I did not vote for sequestration. I thought it was a terrible idea, and I knew it would end up where we are today.

We are really dealing with 21st century families in a 20th century military personnel system.

I focus a lot on military families and their wellbeing, and one of the things we have heard about from our families is the current rules do not accommodate them.

I need you to put it No. 1 on your list, to test it, and if it is the carcinogen that many scientists have said it is, it needs to be banned.

We have a horrible problem in New York State with Superfund sites and with groundwater that is polluted.

I need you to care about human health and really believe that the cost, when human health is at risk, when people are dying, is far higher than it is the cost to that polluter to clean up the air and change their processes.

If you believe that mercury is a threat to public health but oppose the remedy of reducing mercury air pollution from power plants because it is too costly, what, then, do you think you should do, or what should be done to address the…

I need you to be vigilant because lives are at stake, and I think you have the purview to do that.

I want to ask you, do you think we should take things like the Democratic or Republican Party infrastructure and consider them to be critical infrastructure?

I have long been advocating for aggressive development of the manpower that we need to support our cybersecurity mission.

I think we should look at people who already have these skills who are already committed to serving our Nation as best we can.

I have been pushing DOD to use the Guard for years and appreciate that this is beginning to happen.

I think you, among others on this committee, were the ones who really tuned us in to retaliation as another dimension of the sexual assault problem we needed to combat.

We've been really looking at this issue of retaliation very hard.

If there's any further authorities or resources you need to continue to develop the strongest cyberforce we possibly can, if you could give that to me so I can put it in the NDAA.

I actually would invite you to look at New York for your next site.

We need to have a much more integrated response to these attacks.