sacrifice everything. we should not be asking them to endure this kind of treatment. >> senator, you've held hearings, you're introducing a bill which we'll talk about in a second, but this isn't a new problem. senators before you took on the tail hook sexual scandal in the early '90s. has anything changed in military culture? >> i don't believe it has changed. this is nothing new. and that's what makes it even that much more urgent that we have to do something now. we continue to see this problem arising time and time again and we need accountability. these victims deserve justice. we need to have transparency in the process and that's what my bill is going to do. it's going to change the way these cases are reported. it's going to change who decides whether they go to trial or not. so that a victim has hope that he or she can see justice in their cases. >> so your bill would remove the person looking into the allegation from the chain of command. that's how it's done. >> correct. >> with other investigations especially those involving when somebody, when a soldier is