WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, andRepresentative Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called for congressional hearings following the Navy's confirmation that8 sailors in the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group had attempted suicideduring the group's most recent deployment. This admission was made in a September 22letterGillibrand received from Acting United States Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao, weeks after administration officials and the president haddismissedfamilies' and soldiers' concerns about conditions on board the ship....