Top leaders of the U.S. military services apologized to Congress on Thursday for allowing substandard living conditions in military family housing. The issues include lead poisoning hazards, mold and pest infestations in some military housing across the country. He urged the service leaders to ask the Justice Department to consider opening criminal or civil investigations of conduct by the housing contractors, whose arrangements with the military housing authorities, Blumenthal said, are "a risk-free cash cow." "We are determined to investigate these problems and to hold our housing contractors and chains of command accountable." Inhofe took aim at the military leaders sitting at the witness table in front of him.

Source: ABC News March 07, 2019 17:13 UTC