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?

A judge advocate outside the chain of command will be looking at a case through a different lens than a military commander.

I am aware the Air Force advocates and supports cyberspace and computer training and education programs nationwide.

What more can DOD do to ensure our veterans have a smooth transition from DOD to the VA?

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 crimes out of the chain of command, but…

Men and women should have the opportunity to overcome their mental disorders or their mental health challenges and shouldn't be stigmatized.

If confirmed, what steps will you take to ensure we are recruiting the best and the brightest to this field?

Those tools remain within the commander's purview entirely. That commander is solely responsible for good order and discipline.

The Air Force is scheduled to add more than 1,000 cyber professionals between fiscal years 2014 and 2016.

I receive the monthly suicide data and am saddened to see the number of servicemembers who fall through the cracks in the system.

We want prosecutions that are going to result in guilty verdicts, and weighing these kinds of evidence is very difficult.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

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.

I would like to work with you both on this issue.

But I would argue that the commander is still responsible for that because keeping in a number of the articles like Article 134, other articles that are general crimes, you are still fundamentally responsible for command climate, good…

I thank the chairwoman for making this clarification. It is my hope that as the Army Corps and other agencies work to assess the region's needs post-Sandy, they will work collaboratively to develop the best techniques to rebuild our coasts…

I thank Senator Mikulski for her leadership, not only leading the charge for aid that our families in New York so desperately need but, as chair of the Appropriations Committee, making sure this bill is as strong as it possibly can be. I…

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service recently determined that we are in the longest period of historically high vacancy rates in 35 years.

Over the last several years, the number of women in the federal judiciary has stagnated.

I strongly believe this country needs more women like her serving in the federal judiciary.

I thank the chairwoman for her leadership on this essential bill. I can't thank her enough for her tenacity and determination to meet the needs of so many affected families in our State. I also thank Senator Landrieu for her leadership to…

We therefore recommend a critical investment in our Nation's museums. Specifically, we are requesting $50 million for IMLS Office of Museum Services for fiscal year 2013.

We are writing to thank you for your support for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Office of Museum Services (OMS) and to urge the subcommittee to support $50 million for OMS in the fiscal year 2013 Labor, Health and…

I would like to engage my colleague, the Senator from Iowa, in a colloquy. I would first like to take this opportunity to commend Senator Harkin, Senators Inouye and Cochran and the rest of the Members of the Senate Appropriations…

I rise today to urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support our efforts to come to the relief of millions of Americans who are suffering in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. I thank my fellow Senators from the Northeast…