[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MILITARY JUDICIAL REFORM ACT

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, just earlier this week, I was able to join 
with my colleague, Representative Speier from California, introducing 
legislation to protect victims of military sexual assault. That's the 
Military Judicial Reform Act.
  In recognition of a victim who, having had a jury at a court-martial 
find a finding of guilt against an assailant, had it overturned by a 
general who convened that, now we are faced with a new opportunity in 
which new information is being put out outside the scope of that trial.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time that we end this archaic practice and stop 
putting the victim on trial again and again.
  This week Secretary Hagel called on Congress to remove the provisions 
of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that allow this proceeding to 
take place, and I urge my colleagues now to act together to end this 
archaic practice.

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