[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 184 (Wednesday, October 20, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS MURDERED

  (Ms. BUSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. BUSH. Madam Speaker, St. Louis and I rise because in 2020, four 
Black women and girls were murdered per day in our country, and that 
kind of violence has continued in St. Louis with many Black women and 
girls being shot, some murdered over recent months.
  This is personal. I have had bullets fly past my head. I have been 
left for dead by a partner. I worry about whether my own daughter will 
get home safely.
  We rise united under our message: We will break the cycles of 
violence that are killing Black women and mothers, our sons and our 
daughters, our trans and nonbinary neighbors, and our sex workers.
  We urgently need the $5 billion for community-based violence 
prevention services in the Build Back Better Act, and we won't stop 
until we have all that we need to keep each other safe.

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