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The guiding philosophy of President JOE BIDEN is simple: prioritization.
“As you’ve all observed,” Biden said in March, “successful presidents better than me have been successful, in large part, because they know how to time what they’re doing order it, decide and prioritize what needs to be done.”
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Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Kirtsen Gilibrand are leading the legislative push to address sexual abuse in the military. Crédito: Getty images / Univision
In 1992, Paula Coughlin was a Navy helicopter pilot when she blew the whistle on one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in U.S. military history.
While attending a military conference in September 1991 in Las Vegas, she was assaulted by a large group of drunken male attendees in what became known as the Tailhook scandal.
Even though other women came forward with similar accusations, no one was ever prosecuted.
She recalls that when she told her commander what had taken place, “I was told, ‘that’s what you get’.”
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