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By Emily Cadei and Megan Scully, CQ Staff
Over the summer, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James F. Amos hosted a dinner with a handful of lawmakers to discuss a hidden epidemic of violence in the military: 19,000 servicemembers are estimated to be victims of rape or sexual assault each year.
Congressman Mike Turner commended the news that the Secretary of the Interior has approved the Central Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers/Dayton Veterans Administration Home, as a National Historic Landmark (NHL). This marks the end of a long approval process. The designation recognizes that the Central Branch possesses exceptional value and quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Currently there are 2,527 designated national historic landmarks and 592 national natural landmark sites that have been designated across the country.
By Leigh Munsil
After months of blistering criticism from Congress over sexual assault in the military, the Pentagon wants lawmakers to see it's getting tough — now.
Army Maj. Gen. Gary Patton, who oversaw the implementation of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal, has just taken the helm of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, charged with the most serious push yet to crack down on one of the military's most corrosive problems.
Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, submitted the following statement for the record today as the Committee began its hearing: "The Security Failures of Benghazi."
House Oversight and Government Reform Hearing: "The Security Failures in Benghazi"
"The president and his proxies boast of saving tens of thousands of auto jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and other states. But they go mute, opaque and evasive when members of Congress and their investigators, Delphi retirees and their lawyers, demand to know who inside made the decision that caused thousands to lose as much as two-thirds of their pensions." – Daniel Howes
Delphi debacle spoils Obama bailout boast
By: Daniel Howes
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa and Congressman Mike Turner, a senior member of the Committee, wrote to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner demanding that his Department comply with document requests related to the Delphi pension scandal. Recent media reports have indicated that Treasury was directly involved in decisions that resulted in approximately 20,000 salaried Delphi retirees from across the country taking a severe cut in their pension benefits following the Auto Bailout process.
Congressman Mike Turner released the following statement today, after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) rejected non-binding mediation with the Delphi Salaried Retirees. Recent media reports have indicated that the U.S. Treasury Department and PBGC made decisions that resulted in approximately 20,000 salaried Delphi retirees from across the country taking a severe cut in their pension benefits.
Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, introduced the Securing Our Nuclear Weapons and Facilities Act, legislation that would transfer responsibility for providing security at certain National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) nuclear weapons facilities to the Department of Defense (DOD). Under the bill, the military would provide security for nuclear weapons and special nuclear material at NNSA's sites in the same manner as it does for nuclear weapons in military custody. In addition, responsibility for securing transportation of nuclear weapons would also shift to DOD.
Congressman Mike Turner introduced H.Res. 799 expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it is not a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state to extend particular consideration to members of the uniformed services and overseas citizens to ensure that they are able to exercise their rights to vote in elections for public office. Turner's effort to highlight this important issue comes as a number of organizations and campaigns in Ohio are working to limit the voting rights of Servicemembers deployed overseas.