[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WEEK

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I am wearing a Liz Claiborne, very 
attractive, very glamorous scarf which is being used and is being 
handed out to Members of Congress, especially women Members of Congress 
this week, as we call attention to Violence Against Women and Stop 
Violence Against Women Week. The bipartisan Women's Caucus and the 
Hispanic Caucus are kicking off this event this week with a reception 
later on.
  The point is to wear something beautiful in order to draw attention 
to a very ugly phenomenon in our country and around the world, and that 
is violence against women, very closely related to child abuse. One way 
to stop child abuse is to focus more on violence against women 
themselves. We have a bill, the Violence Against Women Act, of course, 
which means that Congress itself regards this as a major phenomenon in 
our society.
  Mr. Speaker, let us use this entire week to call attention to it and 
to eliminate it once and for all from the United States of America and 
from the world.

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