[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 74 (Monday, May 5, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H1841-H1842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  EXPRESSION OF OUTRAGE ON NATIONAL DAY OF AWARENESS FOR MISSING AND 
                  MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS

  (Mr. STANTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STANTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise on the National Day of Awareness for 
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to express my outrage 
over more broken promises.
  In my home State of Arizona, we are mourning the death of 14-year-old 
Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Emily disappeared 
from Mesa earlier this year and was

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found brutally murdered 2 weeks later off of U.S. Highway 60.
  Months later, her case remains unsolved. Emily Pike, like Hanna 
Harris 30 years ago and hundreds and hundreds of native women and 
girls, should be alive today.
  It is far too common that their cases go cold and that loved ones are 
left without answers and without justice.
  To this day, the MMIP crisis remains the most underreported, under-
discussed, and under-resourced tragedy in America, and Congress and 
Presidents have promised for decades to do much more to address it.
  Despite some progress towards justice for victims and their families, 
Trump's budget announced Friday strips millions of dollars from public 
safety and criminal justice programs across Indian Country. We have the 
unique trust responsibility to our Tribal Nations and rarely, if ever, 
has our Federal Government delivered.

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