{"id":38195,"date":"2013-05-08T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/military_times_lawmakers_act_fast_with_new_legislation_on_military_sexual_a\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:28:17","slug":"military_times_lawmakers_act_fast_with_new_legislation_on_military_sexual_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38195","title":{"rendered":"(Military Times) Lawmakers act fast with new legislation on military sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle reacted swiftly to the news that the Pentagon\u2019s estimated number of sexual assaults jumped 35 percent, with several introducing legislation in the House and Senate to protect victims and improve response following report of an incident.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the Senate Armed Services personnel panel, plans to introduce legislation next week that would eliminate a commander\u2019s authority to overturn rulings in cases of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20130507\/NEWS\/305070033\/Lawmakers-act-fast-new-legislation-military-sexual-assault\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle reacted swiftly to the news that the Pentagon\u2019s estimated number of sexual assaults jumped 35 percent, with several introducing legislation in the House and Senate to protect victims and improve response following report<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38195\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,149,617,114,125,151,618,112,584,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-men","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-sexuality","category-the-u-s-government","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}