[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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              THANK YOU TO THE CONFEREES ON THE CRIME BILL

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to get to come to this 
well and bring good news. The good news is the crime bill has been 
completed, and the Violence Against Women Act is in there stronger than 
ever.
  I really salute the House conferees who yielded to the Senate who had 
much stronger provisions in several cases, and that rarely happens. 
Nobody wants to give up their turf.
  What that means is that the fact that America has three times as many 
shelters for homeless dogs and cats as it does for battered women and 
children will now change, that there will be funding for that. There 
will be training at the local level, and we will say once and for all 
we must get tough on this.
  You cannot continue to batter a person over and over and over again 
and have the police called and have them just walk you around the block 
and you go back in and continue the beating. That will not be accepted.
  If we do not get violence out of the home and domestic terrorism out 
of the home, we will never, never get violence off the streets.
  So that is good news today, and I really thank all of the conferees 
for working so hard on it.

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