07/29/2014
https://congress.gov...
"This critical statute, which we often refer to as VAWA, was signed into law in 1994, to help ensure that women in America are free from violence and free from fear."
"We have to expand our horizons to understand that transgender people are human, they are what they are, not by choice."
"President Trump violated that basic command when he invented a so-called emergency as an excuse to build a wall that Congress explicitly rejected."
"This debate should not be about partisan politics. It should be about protecting a principle that is fundamental to our constitutional democracy."