U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee through several steps to improve military sexual assault Wednesday in a rare public debate on the annual defense policy bill sued, but it killed a controversial proposal Pentagon leaders of the opposition.
Panel, 17-9 vote, approved a plan that will continue to allow military commanders to decide whether the trial of cases of sexual abuse, but will increase the level of senior leadership from the more automatic review Committee Chairman Carl Levin.
Senator Levin's proposal replaces Kirsten Gillibrand will take the decision to prosecute sexual assault victim's commander hands, and put it with the independent military prosecutor's a controversial plan.
Tickets, ignoring the party's ideology, followed an emotional debate, in a rare open meeting by the Committee's work to combat sexual assault drafting the annual National Defense Authorization Act, "which provides military policy measures.
Panels are usually written bill behind closed doors, the introduction of measures to prepare the full Senate is a consideration. After the sexual assault provisions of the debate, the committee went back to a closed-door meeting to discuss the rest of the bill.
Refuse sexual assault prosecution proposes to delete the stage of the chain of command, the fight on this issue on the Senate floor. Gillibrand, New York's Democratic aides said she would consider the proposal to promote the full chamber.
"Chain of command has told us, for decades, they will solve this problem, they have failed, Gillibrand said:" After pressing senior senator, to accept her sexual draft recommendations of the Subcommittee's annual National Defense Authorization bill.
She noted that the military's "zero tolerance" policy toward sexual harassment began over two years ago, when U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense under.
Independent review
Levin alternative would leave decisions in the hands of the military prosecution of sexual assault chain of command, but if the cost of not pursuing the court will require a more senior military leaders to conduct an independent review. This will also make it a crime to retaliate against those who report sexual assault.
"We have a serious problem in the military sexual assault," said Levin, Michigan Democrat. "However, I do not support the deletion of authoritative commander indicted for sexual assault cases outside the military chain of command in the hands of lawyers, and to this decision.
"I believe that doing so would undermine our response sexual assault," he said.
Levin's recommendations were senior members of both parties, including the South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham and John McCain of Arizona and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed and Missouri Claire McCaskill.
Texas Republican Ted Cruz and New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen supports Gillibrand's proposal.
Army debate on the issue of sexual assault following an annual Pentagon study unwelcome sexual contact, from groping rape, in 2012 an increase of 37%, with an estimated 26,000 cases from 19,000 the previous year. It also follows a series of high-profile cases of sexual assault.
Last Wednesday announced a nationwide survey showed that 81 percent of Americans watched the military sexual assault as an extremely important or very important issue.
A poll by the Pew Research Center and the "Washington Post" also found that 63% of the public believe that the problem of sexual abuse, about the same inside and outside the military.
National Defense Authorization Act by the U.S. Congress is currently being processed by one of several defensive measures. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved the fiscal 2014 defense spending in October to 512.5 billion dollars. It also approved 85.8 one billion U.S. dollars funding the war.
The amount is more than one billion U.S. dollars 28.1 expenditure ceiling by the U.S. Congress in 2011, another year of full automatic defense budget cuts to improve prospects. The Senate Appropriations Committee adopted its budget proposals.
 



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