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Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) are teaming up to introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to improve military sexual trauma (MST) survivors’ access to care and benefits, as well as bolster MST claims processing.

To hear more of phyllis's story, visit lyrica.com. welcome back, congresswoman shelly pingtree testified in the house yesterday in support of ruth more act to pave the way for veterans to receive disability benefits linked to sexual assaults in the military. the bill's namer battled for 20 years to collect benefits for her ptsd. congresswoman joins me with ruth more and the executive director of the servicewomen's action network. welcome to all of you. congresswoman let me ask you, what's the state of play of the bill? i know there were hearings on the senate side, that senator gillenbrand c...

Senators, jillgillen brshgbrand others, and are they the catalyst for change? >> well, they are picking it up and running wit, and there are so many people like representative jackie spear, and so many other people working diligently to move this forward. they -- i'm hopeful that they will, that more people will come along, that more public citizens will say, we need to stop this and do something. more of the communities will get together and say, this is a problem, we need to get on board and the ruth moore act and the stop act and all of those things, we need support for those particular act...