education and prevention, then this problem and this nightmare is going to keep happening over and over again. anybody else care to should i assume you all agree with that, right? yes. so do i. thank you very much. thank you senator leahy. senator corbin? thank you, senator, i just want to say sorry. just one more to add, we also want to see them at least be federally prosecuted to the fullest extent because they need to be held accountable. thank you. as a former prosecutor, i agree with that, thank you. senator corbin. thank you, mr. chairman. i, too, want to thank these four survivors joining us today. i want to tell you how much i respect and admire your courage
0 job is to protect getting away with this? this is not justice. enough is enough. today, i ask you all to hear my voice. i ask you, please, do all that is in your power to make sure these individuals are held accountable and responsible for lying about my initial report and covering up for a child molester. in closing, i would like to ex-tress my deep gratitude to the united states senate, a very powerful institution that from the beginning has fought for us rather than against us. thank you, and i welcome any questions. thank you ms. maroney. miss nichols. chair durbin, ranking member grassley and distinguished members of the judiciary committee, thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. i want to thank you for your commitments to holding those accountable for athlete safety. i was named as gymnast two in the office of inspector general s report and previously identified as athlete a. by usa gymnastics. i want you to know this didn t happen to gymnast two or agent lee a. i
justice roberts. i d like to know if you have another example of that. it was done for justice roberts. when he was a solicitor general, that is correct. during the time that they worked in the white house. that is my question. mr. chairman, i d like to bring you the attention of the chair i believe i had the floor. senator corbin. thank you, mr. chairman, for recognizing me. i haven t been in as many confirmation hearings as some of my colleagues, but this is the first supreme court justice nominee i ve seen courting the bob rule. we have norms for decorum. everybody, as you pointed out, is going to get a chance to have their say. yeah. you ve given everybody a chance to ask questions for up to 50 minutes. you ve given them a chance to make an opening statement. any one of our colleagues can step out and talk to the press and make whatever comments they want to the press, tell the world how they feel about this.
support in any way shape or form to contact on the facebook page. a variety of organizations from the uso, red cross and a wide variety of organizations are providing assistance right now and we deeply appreciate their support as well. with that, i ll take questions after i turn this over to senat senator corbin. i ask that you keep the families of the wounded and killed in your thoughts. general milley, thank you for your strong and leadership in assignment abroad from where we last met. i m here at ft. hood for the second time in about 4 1/2 years and what i see is a community that has come together in a time of crisis and heartbreak and is pulling together.
let me just tell you in the same week, right, you had a criminal investigation taking place with a u.s. senator. another senator cooperating turning over 1200 pages. no coverage. which senator was that? i m sorry. senator corbin, turning over 1,200 pages in the incident investigation. on the same day as the charlie rangel mess. no attention. but we had the pentagon admit that they lost $9 billion in cash in iraq in $1 million satchels over the course of the iraq reconstruction. no mention of that. because this is another distraction. first of all, i served six years on the ethics committee. complaints come, you review them. if there s a prima facie case, you make the statement of alleged allegations, the member gets a chance to answer. maxine waters says she wants an opportunity to answer. i don t know we would jump to the conclusion that members should take an allegation, admit to it whole cloth without a chance to rebut it. members should take that opportunity, and i believe that