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Katie Porter: It is not eating cake to want women to be safe in their homes and from their partners. I know a lot about tough…

On the recordJune 12, 2019
It is not eating cake to want women to be safe in their homes and from their partners. I know a lot about tough decisions and about priorities, and I have faced tough decisions about how to protect my own family. And I am proud that it is a priority of mine and of my Democratic colleagues to support full funding to stop intimate partner violence. Madam Chair, I respectfully ask for the support of all of my colleagues in this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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Katie Porter
Democratic · California
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govinfo.gov
Jun 12, 2019

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