Patrick Leahy actually said...

"The things you have described should never happen to any victim."

"we should be doing at the Federal Government level? Obviously, the State governments have their own programs, but are things that we should be doing?"

"I advocated for increased funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for important VAWA programs."

"Has that affected, increased or decreased or in any way affected the need for the services that we have in VAWA?"