Jack Reed

We really applaud the administration saying we need to add more money to defense.

We have also heard concern from our allies and partners in the region that the administration has not yet articulated a comprehensive Asia-Pacific strategy.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on whether they believe China can and will exert sufficient pressure on the regime to denuclearize the peninsula.

This hearing could not come at a more critical time as the North Korea regime has engaged in an aggressive schedule of tests for its nuclear and missile programs.

I know when the first females were integrated into submarines, it was consciously done so that there would be four to six enlisted plus four officers, not onesies and twosies.

But you consciously do not--put individuals on a ship?

As Senator Collins noted, it is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Are you using that aggressively to counter what is usually kind of informal and sometimes even nonverbal sort of conduct or communication that leads to this type of ostracism or retaliation?

I think it would make great sense.

Shouldn't they have that option?

One avenue they do not have is legal counsel.

Addressing this problem is challenging, particularly when key personnel positions...are vacant, delayed by President Trump's, I believe, counterproductive hiring ban.

We are in a situation today where we are seeing actually the rate of sexual assault at the academy rising.

I associate myself entirely with your comments. I think you discuss this issue with great eloquence, great clarity, and great emphasis, because it is critically important.

The greatest threat to the community banks is that we continue to have banks too big to fail that dominate the market.

Should these companies that are exposed to climate risk specifically be required to make their disclosures?

I would urge you very much to look at that.

There is zero room for bad actors in our capital markets. I am 100 percent committed to rooting out any fraud and shady practices in our financial system.

With $18 billion in unspecified cuts to the domestic side of the ledger, how can we make a decision if we do not know what the specific cuts will be?

It seems to me to be not only irrational but insane.

Countering Russia's malign activities is a matter of national security.

The Flood Insurance Program provides much more than simply reimbursement to people who suffer damage: flood mapping, mitigation, a whole host of issues that are critical to communities and critical to resiliency.

I simply want to concur and thank you for holding this hearing. It has been very important, and it will be a foundation for further work by all the Military Services, not just the Marine Corps, all the Military Services, and this Congress…

You cannot have individual marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, coast guardsmen who are marginalized because of gender or any other characteristic.

In my view, the Marine Corps must and will attack this problem with the vigor that the Marine Corps has demonstrated time and time again.