[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16739]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to address the pervasive 
and life-threatening challenges posed by domestic violence.
  Mr. Speaker, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic 
Violence, as many as one in four women over the course of her lifetime 
will experience domestic violence. This is a crime that knows no 
geographical boundaries, a crime which knows no class boundaries, and a 
crime which does not come to the family from without but comes from 
within and transcends generations as children are scared and then 
replicate the behavior that unfortunately they saw in their families.
  Mr. Speaker, around the United States and certainly in Connecticut, 
we've got wonderful organizations like the YWCA of Greenwich, the 
Center for Women and Families of Eastern Fairfield County, and the 
Domestic Violence Crisis Centers in Stamford and Norwalk doing 
wonderful work providing safety and comfort to victims of these crimes.
  We should support those organizations, Mr. Speaker. But each and 
every one of us as fathers, as brothers, as community leaders, as 
Members of Congress should stand up and say we will put an end to this 
terribly destructive force.

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