[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 29 (Thursday, February 28, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise to really 
applaud the House for renewing today the Violence Against Women Act. 
This will protect our citizens. It's important legislation. I had the 
privilege of helping to author the original one in 1994 with Patricia 
Schroeder, Louise Slaughter, and Joe Biden; and we reauthorized it 
twice. I'm pleased that it passed today.
  I was very pleased that the bill included two bills that I had 
authored, one the SAFER Act with Congressman Poe, in a bipartisan way, 
that would process the DNA rape kits that are sitting on shelves across 
this country gathering dust and hopefully put rapists behind bars and 
protect women from future assaults from these particular rapists; and 
also the Campus Security Act, which would require campuses to keep 
statistics on violence on the campus and steps that they're taking to 
protect their citizens; also the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act to 
crack down on sex trafficking.
  It's an important bill. I applaud my colleagues for passing it.

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