Jerry Nadler: “I support this amendment, which would make entities found by the Attorney General to have fraudulently misused VAWA…”

“I support this amendment, which would make entities found by the Attorney General to have fraudulently misused VAWA grant funds ineligible to apply for future grants for up to 5 years. This amendment tries to guard against the potential misuse of grant funds, but it does so in a way that safeguards due process, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Any misuse of funds that does not rise to the level of fraud, or that is merely an error, is insufficient to make a grantee ineligible for funds and only places a temporary, but sufficiently lengthy, ban on receipt of funding. Because this is a commonsense measure, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”