[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 735 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 735

 Commemorating the fourth annual Milwaukee Brides Walk and recognizing 
      all Brides Walks held to protest against domestic violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2009

 Ms. Moore of Wisconsin (for herself, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Kind, 
 Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Petri) submitted the following resolution; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Commemorating the fourth annual Milwaukee Brides Walk and recognizing 
      all Brides Walks held to protest against domestic violence.

Whereas the first ``Brides Walk'' was held in New York over 8 years ago in 
        memory of Gladys Ricart, who was brutally murdered by an abusive ex-
        boyfriend on her wedding day as she was handing the floral bouquets to 
        her bridesmaids;
Whereas the first Brides Walk was started by Josie Ashton, a domestic violence 
        advocate who put on her wedding dress and started a 1,600-mile march 
        down the East Coast from New York;
Whereas every year women across the world organize walks dressed as brides to 
        not only remember Gladys Ricart, but to protest against domestic 
        violence;
Whereas domestic violence is the willful intimidation, assault, battery, sexual 
        assault, or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner 
        against another, which includes women and men;
Whereas 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime;
Whereas 1 in 5 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed 
        rape;
Whereas on average, more than 3 women are murdered by their husbands or 
        boyfriends in the United States every day;
Whereas 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner in 2000;
Whereas 30 percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically 
        abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year;
Whereas roughly 300,000 to 400,000 men are treated violently by their wife or 
        girlfriend;
Whereas in Wisconsin in 2007, 37 individuals lost their lives at the hands of a 
        current or former partner, or were present at the scene when domestic 
        violence was occurring and lost their lives during the incident;
Whereas in 2007, Wisconsin domestic abuse programs provided service to 28,655 
        women, 8,915 children, and 3,103 men;
Whereas the Milwaukee Brides Walk was the first Brides Walk in the state of 
        Wisconsin and took place on September 17, 2006, the second Brides Walk 
        took place on September 16, 2007, and the third Brides Walk took place 
        on September 14, 2008; and
Whereas the purpose of the 2009 Milwaukee Brides Walk will be to honor the 
        memory of deceased victims and promote awareness of domestic violence 
        issues in the Latino community: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives commemorates the fourth 
annual Milwaukee Brides Walk and recognizes all Brides Walks held to 
protest against domestic violence, and honors the memories of all 
victims of domestic violence.
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