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CELEBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to celebrate and commemorate this historic month, Women's History Month, and to celebrate the passing in the House of the equal rights amendment, as well as VAWA, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, H.R. 1620.
How grateful I am that this bill, H.R. 1620, addresses the need of sex trafficking victims while creating a demonstration program on trauma-informed training for law enforcement. It increases access to grant programs for culturally specific organizations and ensures culturally specific organizations are included in the development of programs.
It is supported by the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women, a coalition of over 200 groups.
VAWA expired on September 30, 2018. We, as a body, are called upon by survivors to do our job. I am delighted to celebrate Ann Kuster, Gwen Moore, Jackie Speier, Brenda Lawrence, Lois Frankel, Debbie Dingell, and Karen Bass, and the name of Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist suffragist, and Ivalita Jackson, my mother, a modern-day abolitionist and suffragist. They know that to get the job done, we must get the job done.
This bill is on to the other body, and now it is to be signed by the President of the United States. It is catapulted in Women's History Month. We celebrate ERA and the Violence Against Women Act.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 50
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