It helped recognize at least the courage and strength of survivors. In this room echoing perhaps unseen and invisible our voices and faces of people who could not be here. And their losses are very much with us now. You give them the advocacy that they deserve and need. And i think everyone of you for being here. Thank you. Thank you, senator blumenthal. Chairman grassley. Thanks is without a long time for opening remarks i will put my statement in the record but i should thank all the witnesses for participating, and one seconds from my speech will kind of some of where i was going to end up with. The bottom line, we need to fulfill our commitment to make sure that the artwork is returned to its rightful owners. In addition, when the authors of this legislation feel it is ready to be put on the agenda i will put on the agenda. Thank you, mr. Chairman. We very much appreciate that and appreciate your leadership. At this point i want to welcome and introduce each of our five witnesses t
Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. The commissary system is simple. If youre active duty in y
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