[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20344]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  PASS THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, over 900,000 women suffer 
violence each year at the hands of an intimate partner. We need the 
Violence Against Women Act to be reauthorized. It has provided over 
$1.6 billion in Federal grants to prosecutors, to law enforcement 
officials, and to victim assistance programs; yet it was allowed to 
expire this past weekend.
  Last week, this body passed it overwhelmingly. There is deep support 
in the Senate, with over 70 co-sponsors. Yet the Senate is holding this 
important piece of legislation up. Meanwhile, women fleeing domestic 
violence and children who live in violent situations wait and wait and 
wait.
  I urge the other body to pass this bill immediately. Women and 
children around this Nation are counting on us. We should have passed 
it in the other body last week. We should not have allowed it to 
expire.

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