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Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: March 17, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Government Budget and Spending Criminal Justice

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Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.

The Violence Against Women Act is a decades-old law that helps protect some of my most vulnerable constituents from abuse. Unfortunately, the law has been expired since 2018.

At a time when the pandemic has forced many women in unsafe domestic situations to stay home, we owe them action. And I came to Congress to get results.

Today, I'll be proud to vote to advance strong and bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and update the Violence Against Women Act.

The bill is going to extend the protections the law has in place while improving violence prevention and victim services. It will ensure communities of color are well served by the law.

And what's more, the bill is forward-looking. It designs studies to assess the challenges survivors face with things like achieving economic security and paying off their student loans. Today, I'm offering an amendment to make sure these studies consider how these matters can have disparate impacts by race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

I urge my colleagues to support my amendment and the bill before us today.

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