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GENTLEMEN, TO
PRESIDENT OF VICE
WELCOME PLEASE
.IANE MILLAGE
>> GOOD AFTERNOON.
ANDLIWN AS
TEUTHERN THE
INDIAN TRIBE IN COLORADO.
NON-INDIAN HUSBAND MOVED INTO
HOUSE ON THE RESERVATION.
MY SHOCK, DAYS AFTER MY
MARRIAGE HE CONSULTED ME.
THAN YEARS OF ABUSE MORE
IN INCIDENTS OF LIVING
TERROR, I LEFT FOR
GOOD.
YEAR OF MARRIAGE, I
CALLED THE POLICE MANY TIMES.
POLICED OUR 78 TRAVEL
BUT THE LAW
FROM PROSECUTING
HUSBAND BECAUSE HE WAS NON-
INDIAN.
HELP MEIFF COULD NOT
BECAUSE I AM A NATIVE WOMAN AND
ON TRAVELGS OCCURRED
LAND.ATION
AFTER ONE THAT BEATING, MY EX-
CALLED THE TROUBLE
DEPARTMENTSHERIFF'S
HIMSELF, JUST TO SHOW ME THAT NO
STOP HIM.
ALL THE TIMES THAT I CALLED THE
POLICE THAT AND NOTHING WAS
MY EX-HUSBANDE
WAS ABOVE THE LAW AND
UNTOUCHABLE.
HEEX-HUSBAND TOLD ME
PROMISED US UNTIL DEATH DO US
PART, SAID THAT A CHARITY.
HE ARRIVED AT MY OFFICE ARMED
GUN.A
BECAUSE ITODAY ON THE
WORKER PUSHED ME OUT OF
HARM'S WAY AND TOOK A BULLET IN
SHOULDER.
THIS CRIME, HE WAS FINALLY
ARRESTED.
HAD NEVER BEEN
THE ABUSEOR
ME, HE WAS TREATED AS A
FIRST-TIME OFFENDER.
THE STATE PROSECUTOR REACHED A
PLEA AGREEMENT OF AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT.
BEING SIGNED
LOT WHEN I WAS
MARRIED, AND WOULD HAVE ALLOWED
OF MY ABUSER.
WHEN THIS BILL IS SIGNED, THE
AGAINST WOMEN ACT WILL
REACHED NATIVE AMERICAN
LIKE ME.
[APPLAUSE]
THANK THE PRESIDENT FOR ALL
DONE FOR WOMEN
EVERYWHERE, AND WE THANK THE
VICE PRESIDENT FOR HIS
INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP.
WAS THE LEADER WHO WROTE THE
ORIGINAL BILL AND WAS
THIS BILL THAT
REAUTHORIZE AND STRENGTHENS THIS
IMPORTANT LAW IS NOW MY HONOR TO
INTRODUCE VICE-PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN.
THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE]
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
.DIANAYOU VERY MUCH,
-- DIANE.
FOR JOE BIDEN.
APPLAUSE]D
HARD-WORKING VICE
PRESIDENT.
WORKING VICERD-
PRESIDENT.
TO BE -- IANT JUST
NOT WANT TO JUST BE SITTING
AROUND.
I PROMISE YOU, I WILL
SITTING AROUND.
NOT PAID HE HAS PLAYED A
IN FORGING THE GUN-
WORKING THEMS BY
SURVIVORS OF GUN VIOLENCE AND
TRICK HE FORGED
WOMEN ACTCE AGAINST
YEARS AGO.
WHO IT WASTTING
ABOUT.
SO ON BEHALF OF AN BRITTANY HERE
THE LIES THAT YOU HAVE
HAD A POSITIVE IMPACT UNTOUCHED
AGAINST WOMENE
ARE ALIVERVIVORS WHO
BECAUSE OF THIS LAW, THE
WHO ARE NO LONGER HIDING
OF THIS LAW, THE
GIRLS WERE GROWING UP AWARE OF
FROM RIGHT TO BE FREE
OF THIS LAW, ON
THEM AND ALL THEIR
FAMILIES, I WANT TO THANK JOE
BIDEN FOR MAKING THIS ONE OF THE
CAREER.F HIS
[APPLAUSE]
HAVE EARLIER, WE
COME A LONG WAY.
WHEN JOE WROTE THIS FALL,
WAS TOO OFTEN
, BESTERA PRIVAT
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
VICTIMS TOO OFTEN THIS DADE
THEY HAD TO LIVE
SHAME THAT SOMEHOW THEY HAD
WRONG.METHING
THEY WENT TO THE
HOSPITAL WHERE THE POLICE
OFTEN THEY% BACK
HOME WITHOUT ANY REAL
OR SUPPORT.
THEY FELT TRAPPED, ISOLATED, AND
RESULT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
OFTEN AND IT IN GREATER
TRAGEDY.
ONE OF THE GREAT LEGACIES OF
THIS LAW IS THAT IT DID NOT JUST
RULES, IT CHANGED OUR
CULTURE, AND OUR PEOPLE TO START
, IT MADE IT OK FOR
A SOCIETY TO TALK ABOUT
ABUSE, AND MADE IT
TOCOUNTRYOR US AS
THE PROBLEM IN A REAL
AND MEANINGFUL WAY.
IT MADE CLEAR TO VICTIMS THAT
THEY WERE NOT ALONE, THAT THEY
ALWAYS HAD A PLACE TO GO, AND
THE ALWAYS HAD PEOPLE ON THEIR
SIDE.
AND TODAY BECAUSE OF MEMBERS OF
BOTH PARTIES WORKED TOGETHER,
TO RENEW THATE
COMMITMENT.
REAUTHORIZING THE VIOLENCE
ACT IS SOMETHING I
FOR IN MY STATE OF THE
ADDRESS, AND WHEN I SEE
DONE, I AMT GOT
--LING
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
IT MAKES ME FEEL OPTIMISTIC.
THIS BILL, WE WILL
PLACE ALL THE
SCRIBE,ONS AND SERVICES
AS HE SAID, WE WILL EXPAND
WOMEN, COVER MORE
IS A COUNTRY WHERE
EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO
PURSUE THEIR OWN MEASURE OF
HAPPINESS AND LIVE THEIR LIVES
FEAR, NO MATTER WHO
ARE, NO MATTER WHO YOU LOVE.
HAS GOT TO BE OUR PRIORITY.
THAT IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT.
[APPLAUSE]
TODAY IS ABOUT MILLIONS OF
WOMEN, THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC
AND *** ASSAULT.
THEY ARE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW
A LIFE LINE, LOOKING
FOR SUPPORT.
BECAUSE OF THIS BILL THEY WILL
CONTINUE TO HAVE ACCESS TO ALL
THAT SHOW FIRST
ESTABLISHED 19 YEARS AGO, THE
OFIONAL HOT LINE, A NETWORK
PROTECTION ORDERS THAT
LINES, ANDOSS STATE
AREL, WHICHHIS
EXPANDING HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND
BETWEEN AAS TO CHOOSE
HOME AND NO HOME AT ALL.
WHAT TODAY IS ALL ABOUT.
[APPLAUSE]
TODAY IS ABOUT ALL THE LAW-
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS LIKE
JOHNSON.IEF JIM
[APPLAUSE]
THE FIRST TO RESPOND
HELP. VICTIM CALLS FOR
BECAUSE OF THIS BILL, WE ARE
CONTINUING ALL THE CHAINS TRY --
CONTINUING ALL THE
TRAINING AND SUPPORT THAT BRIDGE
ACTUALS IN THE
OF LAW SO WE CAN
MORE OFFENDERS TO
JUSTICE.
AND WE ARE GIVING OUR LAW-
ENFORCEMENT BETTER TOOLS TO
***,IGATE CASES OF
REMAINED CONSISTENTLY
CRIME IN OURD
COUNTRY.
OFFICERS DELIVER
ON THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF
THEIR JOB, PREVENTED HARM AND
LIVES.
ABOUT. WHAT TODAY
DIANE.S ABOUT WOMEN LIKE
I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT DIANE
SHARED HER STORY.
TRAGICALLY, IT IS A COMMON
STORY.
WE HAVE TROUBLE LEADERS
I WANT TO THANK
ALL FOR FIGHTING SO ***
OF POOR PEOPLE TO MAKE
THIS BILL AND REALITY.
INDIAN COUNTRY
SOME OF THE HIGHEST RATES OF
AMERICA, ANDE IN
WHENF THE REASONS IS IS
ABUSEDAMERICAN WOMEN
ON TRIBAL LANDS BY ATTACKER WHO
AMERICAN, THE
ATTACKER IS IMMUNE FROM
PROSECUTION.
BILL,N AS I SIGNED THAT
ENDS.
THAT ENDS.
[CHEERS]
ENDS.
[APPLAUSE]
TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE AN
TO PROTECT THEIR
PEOPLE, AND ALL WOMEN DESERVE
FEAR, ANDTO LIVE
ALL ABOUT.T TODAY
THE AMERICANS ALL
DISCRIMINATION BASED ON
ORIENTATION, AND GENDER
.DENTITY
[APPLAUSE]
SHARON WHO IS
HERE -- WHERE DID SHE GO?
THE WORK SHE IS DOING, GREAT
IS DOING WITH THE ANTI-
VIOLENCE PROJECT, BUT SHARON AND
ADVOCATES WHO ARE
COMMUNITY, THEY
ALONE, AND NOW THEY
HAVE TO.
WHAT TODAY IS ALL ABOUT.
THAT IS WHAT TODAY IS ALL ABOUT.
TODAY IS ABOUT WOMEN WHO COME