i believe that if the mjia is pass it will save lives and were puzzled affect the lives of survivors, both victims and their family. no one should have to worry about retaliation from their chain of command when they report these crimes. retaliation happens so often that a majority of these assaults one reported. every military victim of sexual assault deserves due process. professional treatment by a trained military individual and equal opportunity to seek and to receive jessica our military has promised improvements and has adequate time in which to improve that the numbers show that the military has failed to live up to its promise. the department of defense has admitted that it may no progress since 2012 but it's time with a chain of command to be removed from decision-making in sexual assault cases and replaced by those trained nonbiased military personnel educated in the law and experience in handling sexual assault cases. further, mjia specifically carves out a sexual assault in a vicious crimes with women of further -- a crimes being left in the chain of command. please hold

further mjia specific parts of sexual assault and other serious crimes with the remainder of militaryher standard by voting yes to an unbiased military system. we have to listen to our victims, our survivors, the men and women who will give their lives to this country who will sacrifice anything for this country. america's military, if they do these reforms we'll have dangerous criminals and far more heroes. the brave men and women we've sent to war to keep us safe deserve nothing less than a justice system equal to their sacrifice. i listening to the victims, we can deliver that. i urge everyone here listen to our brave survivors. support our bill and do the right thing. i now would like to yield the floor to one of the authors of the military justice improvement act, senator from iowa. >> thank you senator gillibrand, for leadership in this area over a long period of time and i add my voice to support for a minute. she's been a great leader on the issue -- amendment. as you see she's got a lot of passion, docket pursuit of justice. last year when i spoke in favor of this nature, i m