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The legislation, written by Gillibrand and Sen. Joni Ernst
The support means the bill, known as the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, has reached enough votes to move forward after years of pushback from the Defense Department
A victory: Gillibrand called the backing of the 41 Democrats, 18 Republicans and two independents a “defining moment,” after trying for nearly a decade to gain such endorsement on similar bills that failed in the Senate by only a few votes.
“We have secured the critical support needed to deliver justice to survivors of sexual assault and other serious crimes in our military,” Gillibrand said in a statement. “For decades, sexual assault in our military has been an uncontrolled epidemic hurting readiness, recruitment, and morale.
In one particularly notable case, Rep. Stephen Lynch
Arguing that “we are getting more information by the day, by the minute, about what happened,” Miller said it now “seems clear that there was some sort of conspiracy where there were organized assault elements that intended to assault the Capitol that day.”
Later in the exchange, when Lynch accused Miller of reversing his stance, Miller replied, “that’s ridiculous.”
“You’re ridiculous,” Lynch shot back.
“Thank you for your thoughts,” Miller responded.
GOP downplays violence: While this is a defense newsletter, we would be remiss if we didn’t note that the main takeaway from the hearing was less Miller’s testimony and more that Republican after Republican repeatedly sought to downplay the violence of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
13 May 2021
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on Thursday slammed the Pentagon’s hunt for extremists in the military without having any data to back up how many there actually are.
The issue came up at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Christine Wormuth as Army secretary.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said to Wormuth, “Based on our conversations, I know you share my concern about the unacceptable rise of white nationalism and other extremist ideologies in the military,” and asked her what policies she would pursue to detect and prevent the spread of extremist ideologies within the Defense Department if she is confirmed.