[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 17, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CELEBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to celebrate and commemorate 
this historic month, Women's History Month, and to celebrate the 
passing in the House of the equal rights amendment, as well as VAWA, 
the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, H.R. 1620.
  How grateful I am that this bill, H.R. 1620, addresses the need of 
sex trafficking victims while creating a demonstration program on 
trauma-informed training for law enforcement. It increases access to 
grant programs for culturally specific organizations and ensures 
culturally specific organizations are included in the development of 
programs.
  It is supported by the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic 
Violence Against Women, a coalition of over 200 groups.
  VAWA expired on September 30, 2018. We, as a body, are called upon by 
survivors to do our job. I am delighted to celebrate Ann Kuster, Gwen 
Moore, Jackie Speier, Brenda Lawrence, Lois Frankel, Debbie Dingell, 
and Karen Bass, and the name of Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist 
suffragist, and Ivalita Jackson, my mother, a modern-day abolitionist 
and suffragist. They know that to get the job done, we must get the job 
done.

  This bill is on to the other body, and now it is to be signed by the 
President of the United States. It is catapulted in Women's History 
Month. We celebrate ERA and the Violence Against Women Act.

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