Jay Rockefeller: “While today's hearing is about progress, in many ways it's more about lack of progress over the last several decades.”

Domestic violence is a deep national stain that every segment of our society must work to confront, prevent, and end.

We need to provide more transitional housing and more training for law enforcement, counselors, and healthcare workers to make it easier for victims to come forward.

I am interested in the children who still have to be reached out to, in the Alabamas and West Virginias and Pennsylvanias and Ohios, et cetera.

Furthermore, if we are going to potentially burden our government agencies with increased costs that will be associated with complying with the bill, then I think Congress should also provide these agencies with sufficient funding to deal…