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Commission to recommend steps to improve military spouses' quality of life, presenter says
Summary
A presenter announced a new commission to develop recommendations aimed at improving housing, employment, health care, education and child care for military spouses, and framed the effort as part of broader administration support for military families.
Presenter opened the session by praising military spouses and announcing a commission charged with proposing improvements to spouses' quality of life. "This commission will provide recommendations for improving the quality of life for military spouses so that we can better support both our military families and the entire United States Armed Forces," the presenter said. The presenter framed the commission as a targeted effort to address long-running problems for military families.
The presenter listed the commission's prospective areas of work, saying it will develop suggestions to address "particular challenges in housing, employment, health care, education, child child care, and just about everything else you can think of." No timetable, membership list or formal procedural steps for the commission were provided in the remarks; those details were not specified in the transcript.
