Eric Swalwell: “Preventing violence against women means preventing violence against all women, especially those from the LGBT community…”

“Preventing violence against women means preventing violence against all women, especially those from the LGBT community, especially those from the immigrant community, and I'm here to support the bipartisan Senate bill that was passed and to oppose the House amendment. I was a prosecutor in Alameda County for 7 years. I worked day in and day out with women who came in as violence victims, people who had been battered. And it's only because of the Violence Against Women funding that we had in our office that allowed our victim advocates to provide them with the emotional and physical services that they needed that we could even begin to put them on the track of healing. Only because of this funding. So right now it is incumbent upon us to make sure that this funding is available, as we move forward, to all women--all women. Violence against all women must be protected against, and we must have funding that shows that we will go aggressively after their abusers and support our law enforcement and their efforts to do that. {time} 1020 Today's bipartisan bill gives us an opportunity to show that this House can do big things when we work together. Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Madam Speaker, I would just ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to please point to anywhere in the House bill that coverage for anyone is denied. To specifically state: Where is the coverage denied? The House covers all victims. This bill does not exclude anyone for any characteristic.…”