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Heres a look. During this Academic Year, reports of Sexual Assault decreased at two of the three academies when compared to the previous Academic Years. With an overall total of 70 reports, involving at least one military victim, one military subject. Of those 70 reports, 53 were made by cadets and midshipmen. Because there is no prevailing thread available for the past school year, the department cannot determine whether the decrease in reporting this year at the Service Academies was due to fewer assaults occurring or due to fewer victims opting to report. Rates of unwanted Sexual Conduct an...

Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Let me welcome our panelists, all of whom are as deeply troubled as all of us are by the situation in south sudan. The reason for this being the first hearing of this committee of the new year is the hope that our attention can send a message to all parties in the sudan that a ceasefire, a continuing ceasefire, a political solution and reconciliation is critical for u. S. Longterm assistance, and in doing so hopefully we can save lives. We have many questions about the direction in which this young nation is headed and the greater implications of ...

Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , two weeks ago, the New York Times accomplished an article on Congressional Democrats plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing campaigning. Thats right, eight months out from the election, democrats in congress have given up on legislating. Instead, theyre going to spend the next eight months focused on show votes which will and i quote from th...

And i would also remind this body that were only willing to give opec a shoverple extension by redirecting it to focus on an area that lacks investment and will have a major impact on the longterm growth of the country, and that is electricity. I cab assure the gentleman from california that this committee will continue its opec oversight but i should note that opec is not a free service. Opec charges fee this is a generate a financial return for the u. S. Treasury. To ensure that opec is not crowding out the private sector, they must demonstrate that no commercial bank is willing to provide t...

This would allow unemployed individuals to take a job paying 18,000 dollars a year, which on its own is not enough to make ends meet, but then they receive a federal enhancement to make the job a more enticing alternative to simply collecting unemployment insurance. Unlike the earned income tax credit, my proposal would apply the same to singles as to married couples and families with children. It would be a preferable means of distributing benefits, since it would arrive in sync with a monthly or biweekly paycheck rather than a yearend lumpsum credit. It is a better way of supporting lowincom...