[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25778-25779]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1230
                           HOUSEHOLD VIOLENCE

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, October is Domestic Violence Awareness 
Month, and now, more than ever, it is time to draw attention to 
household violence that results in more than 2 million injuries and 
1,200 deaths among women each year.
  Estimates of assaults on women by partners range from approximately 2 
million to 4 million annually. Sadly, we have no real idea of how many 
incidents of violence actually occur each year because so many go 
unreported.
  Those unreported incidents are the reason Domestic Violence Awareness 
Month is so vital. Only when we are no longer afraid to speak out about 
domestic violence will we empower those who currently suffer in 
silence. In my State of Illinois alone, there were 114,921 reported 
cases of domestic violence in 2006.
  It is for those thousands of women and the countless others who 
suffer silently that I speak today. It is for those women that I 
encourage my colleagues to pass House Resolution 817, which supports 
the goals and ideals of

[[Page 25779]]

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

                          ____________________