Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record letters from human rights and civil rights organizations in support of S. 47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Washington, DC, February 1, 2013. Re NAACP Strong Support for S. 47, to Reauthorize the 1994 Violence Against Women Act Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Leahy: On behalf of the NAACP, our nation's oldest, largest and most widely-recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization, I would like to sincerely thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 47, legislation strengthening and reauthorizing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). As strong and consistent supporters of VAWA, the NAACP recognizes that this important legislation would improve criminal justice and community-based responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking in the United States. As you know, the NAACP supported the passage of VAWA in 1994, and its reauthorization in 2000 and 2005. We have witnessed VAWA change the landscape for victims of violence in the United States who once suffered in silence.…”