Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in order to restore every single piece of the Violence Against Women Act funding, there is a requirement that would be required that we would have to have had $76.7 million. Just to give my colleagues an idea what I mean about that, the violence against women grants; pro-arrest policy; rural domestic violence, court-appointed special counsel, national stalker reduction, training programs, Federal victims counselors, grants for televised testimony, State databases, national baseline study for campus sexual assault, equal justice for women in courts, training grants for State courts, training for Federal and judicial personnel, Federal Judicial Center, and Administrative Office of the Courts, are all recipients of some portion of the violence against women funding. Unfortunately, all we have available is $75 million, not $76.7 million to make this account totally whole. So my amendment lays out which portions of all of those functions that I have just read are fully funded and which are not able to be funded with this addition of $75 million. I want to put this in context. We are going to be funding $175 million out of $76.7 million. This is a $75 million increase.”