Im pleased two of the bills i have authored are part of the Senate Version. It would be ripped out by the republican version, so i strongly support the Bipartisan Senate version, one i authored with representative poe in a bipartisan way. And that was the safer act. This took the monies and directed justice not to just spend money but process the backlog of d. N. A. Kits to put rapists behind bars and the campus save act. There is too much violence on campus. One in five women will be assaulted on College Campuses. This would require colleges to keep students safe. And also the bipartisan important antitrafficking bill is part of it. I urge my colleagues in a bipartisan, historic way, to reauthorize and pass the violence against women act, the Senate Version. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from florida. Mr. Nugent continue to reserve. Ms. Slaughter i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from california, ms. Matsui the speaker pro tempore ment the gentlelady is recognized. Mismatsui i rise in strong support of this act. Since the violence against women act first became law in 1994, the incidents of Domestic Violence is down more than 60 . It is with that same record of success that we should address the prevalence of necessaryic violence in underserved communities. In my district of sacramento, we are fortunate to have an organization which provides Crisis Intervention Services to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault victims. Recently they admit add woman and her son to their safe house. By the time tucker reached the safe house, his fathers verbal abuse had convinced him that he was stupid and insignificant. For an 8yearold boy to no longer smile, to play games, to enjoy life is heartbreaking. Fortunately tuckers mother rescued herself and her son by using the resources that the violence against women act makes available. Tucker is now living away from his father in counseling and on his way to a happy and healthy future. Time and time again we hear that programs like this break the cycle of Domestic Violence. We must view this legislation not just as a womans issue but as a family issue, as a Community Issue that touches all our lives. It is essential for all past and future victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, dating violence, that we strengthen and reauthorize the violence against women act. I urge my colleagues to reauthorize an allinclusive version of the violence against women act. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back of the the gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from florida. Mr. Nugent continue to reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter i am pleased, mr. Speaker, to yield a minute and a half to the gentlewoman from nevada, ms. Titus. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for 1 1 2 minutes. Ms. Titus thank you, ms. Slaughter. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to support the rule but oppose the House Republican substitute and to urge my colleagues to vote for the real violence against women act reauthorization. This passed the senate with overwhelming Party Bipartisan support. Real vawa focuses on key programs to address Sexual Assault, including the backlog and testing rape kits. It also consolidates programs to ensure that resources are reaching Victim Services and local Law Enforcement. And it ensures protection for all victims of abuse. In nevada nearly half of all women have been the victim of some kind of sexual aassault assault and more than a quarter a victim of rape. The Rape Crisis Center in las vegas, an Excellent Organization that i have worked with closely over the years, assists victims in the transition to become survivors. This congress should support the centers efforts not hinder them. Violence against women is not a game. It is time for House Republicans to stop playing games and to reauthorize this vital legislation now. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. The gentlelady from new york reserves the balance of her time. The gentleman from florida continues to reserve. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter mr. Speaker, im pleased to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from texas, mr. Green. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for a minute and a half. Mr. Green thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank you so much for the time. Isnt it ironic that today the Supreme Court of the United States of america is considering section 5 of the Voting Rights act in terms of whether it will continue to apply for the United States of america. And those specific states and areas that are included therein. This is being done at the same time we are considering the violence against women act, which in my opinion should be called a Family Violence act. And i say this because we cannot exclude people because of their sexual orientation. This is my watch. I have a duty to stand up for those who are being left out or left behind. This act should include the Lgbt Community and any substitute that would remove the Lgbt Community is a substitute i cannot support. Isnt it ironic that today the Supreme Court is considering section 5 of the Voting Rights act and we just had a statue of rosa parks made available to the public in stat wary hall. Friends, its time for us to come up to the standards of this time and lets bring all of our people with us. The Lgbt Community merits our consideration. I will not vote for the substitute. I support the Lgbt Community. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back of the the gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from florida continues to reserve. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter mr. Speaker, i am pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland to discuss the previous question, mr. Van hollen, distinguished Ranking Member of the committee on the budget, from maryland. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Van hollen thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank Ranking Member slaughter, and i hope tomorrow this house will finally have a chance to vote on the Bipartisan Senate bill to prevent violence against women. I hope tomorrow will also have a chance well also have a chance to vote on a proposal that we now have put forward three times this year to replace the sequester. Unfortunately the rule reported out of the house, rules committee, denies us that opportunity. So let hes just remind people what will happen starting march 1. Starting march 1 if this house does not take action to replace the sequester, we will lose 750,000 american jobs between march 1 and the end of this year. Those are not my numbers. Those are not president obamas numbers. Those are the numbers from the bipartisan by the non partisan, independent Congressional Budget Office. 750,000 fewer american jobs by the end of this year if we dont replace the sequester. This majority in this house has not taken any action this year in this congress to prevent that sequester from happening beginning friday. Not one step. We have now asked three times for the opportunity to vote on our alternative. Whats our alternative, mr. Speaker . Our alternative would replace the sequester with a balanced mix of cuts and revenue generated by closing tax loopholes and tax preferences that benefit the very wealthy. Very specifically because its a concrete proposal, we would get rid of the direct payments that go to agribusinesses, something that used to be have bipartisan support. Because thats an unnecessary subsidy that has outlived its purpose. So thats a cut. We also say we no longer need taxpayer subsidies for the big oil companies. Guess what . Thats an idea that was proposed by president bush who said taxpayers should no longer be giving these big breaks to big oil companies. They dont need that extra taxpayer incentive in order to keep producing oil and making record profits. So we do that. And then we say to folks who are making 2 million a year that we are going to limit the number of preferences you can take, we are going to limit the number of tax breaks that you can take that allow you to effectively pay a lower rate than the people who work for you. So if you are making 2 million or more per year, we should say you pay an effective tax rate of 30 . And if you take that combination of targeted cuts, i ask for another minute. Ms. Slaughter i am pleased to yield the gentleman two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized tore two minutes. Mr. Van hollen if you take that balanced combination of targeted cuts and the elimination of tax breaks that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people, guess what happens . You get the same deficit reduction over the budget window, so you reduce the deficit by the same amount as you would get if you allow the sequester to take place throughout this year, but you do it in a way that does not lose 750,000 american jobs. You do it in a way that does not cause disruption at our airports in a way that does not cause disruption to our food safety system. In a way that does not cause disruption to the nurses who are caring for our veterans in military hospitals and veterans hospitals around this country. In a way that does not disrupt our military operations. So, mr. Speaker, we just have a simple question. Why is it that as we gather here wednesday we are denied the opportunity to even have a vote on this alternative, this balanced alternative to prevent the loss of 750,000 american jobs. We are not asking members of this 750,000 american jobs. We are not asking for members of this house to vote for the alternative, although we think its good and we would ask them to do so, we are simply asking in this house we have a vote on an alternative that would then this disruption. I think the American People would ask themselves why we were not even granted that opportunity with less than three days to go before we hit that acrosstheboard sequester, which is just washington speak for massive job loss and massive economic disruption, in addition to the job loss, according to the independent Congressional Budget Office, it will cause one third less economic output in the United States of america in this year. At a time when the economy remains very fragile. So i ask, finally, mr. Speaker, give us that opportunity to vote so people have a choice to prevent the sequester. I thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlelady from new york, the Ranking Member of the rules committee. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from new york reserves the balance of her time. The gentleman from florida. Continues to reserve. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter mr. Speaker, im delighted to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the democratic leader, ms. Pelosi. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. Ms. Pelosi thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her leadership as the senior democrat on the rules committee. Today we have an interesting discussion. We are debating the rule that will enable us to bring to the floor the violence against women act. As part of the debate on the rule we are asking to vote no on the previous question which would enable us also to not only vote on the violence against women act but at completion to go on to voting on a proposal that the democrats have to resolve the sequester issue. Ill start first with the violence against women act. As of yesterday it was over 500 days since the violence against women act had expired. The reauthorization is long overdue. Last year the senate in a bipartisan way passed a bill that was comprehensive, that did the job. The House Republicans resisted that. Here we are again this year, last week, the house senate, the senate in a bipartisan way passed 7822 the violence against women act which is comprehensive and does the job. That means 78 of the senate voted, 78 of the senate voted for this violence against women act. It means also that all of the women in the senate, democrats and republicans alike, voted for this act. It also means that a majority of the republicans in the senate, majority of the republicans in the senate voted for this comprehensive violence against women act. So the senate has passed it overwhelmingly. The majority of republicans supporting it. The president stands ready to sign it. Democrats in the house support it. We have our own well call upon our leadership of gwen moore who has a similar bill in the house, we stand ready to support the Senate Version, the Senate Passed it, we support t. The president is ready to sign it. Once again the republicans in the house are the obstacle to passing this legislation. Its hard to explain to anyone why we would say to the women of america, women of america, step forward. We are stopping violence against women, not so fast if you are an immigrant or a member of the Lgbt Community or a native american. What is that . Violence against some women and not others. And quite frankly, the groups that are excluded are the groups that are in most need of protection against violence. So, i would hope that in the course of the debate that we will move on to on the violence against women act that we will all open our hearts to what is needed to reduce violence in the lives of americas women. In the meantime, we have a procedure that is not preferable. We have asked over and over again as the distinguished the gentleman from maryland, mr. Van hollen has said, this is the third time we asked a vote on an alternative and why cant we pass something to avoid sequestration. We have this proposal that is fair, that does make cuts, does produce revenue, that does not impede growth with jobs in our economy. And all we want is a vote. Why do we have to beg hat in hand for a vote on the floor of the house in this marketplace of ideas . What are the republicans are afraid of . They are afraid it will win and makes so much sense or they may not want to put their members on record to vote against against a solution, a solution to sequestration. What does sequestration mean . Well, whatever it means, this is what it equals. Sequestration equals unemployment. Sequestration equals job loss and we cannot have a slowing down of our Economic Growth. We cannot afford to lose the 700,000 jobs, low estimate, that has been put forth by economists and by the Congressional Budget Office itself. So all were hoping is that on the previous question, we urge people to vote no on the previous question, which means that we would then be allowed to come to the floor to take up the violence against women act and also to take up the sequestration bill. It is really something that deserves debate on the floor of the house. The Republican Leadership has said, well, we voted on that last year, last year was another congress. That congress ended. Congress ends and we have a new congress. We have an election and new Congress Begins and constitution says bills that relate to revenues and appropriations must begin in the house. They say we did it last year. That doesnt count. Thats not what the constitution says. Lets take our responsibility and not be afraid of the ideas that people sent us here to discuss. We dont have to agree on every point, but we should have an opportunity on the floor of the house. People across the country are talking about this. You cant turn on any media without them talking about this. The only place we cant talk about it or get a vote on it is on the floor of the house of representatives. I urge a no vote on the previous question. And a no vote on the republican violence against women act and yes vote on the Bipartisan Senate bill when we have the opportunity to vote on that. With that, i yield back to the distinguished Ranking Member. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from florida continues to reserve. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter i yield 15 seconds to mr. Van hollen for clarification and following that, two minutes to ms. Wasserman schultz, the gentlelady from florida. Mr. Van hollen 150,000 fewer american jobs, cutting growth in g. D. P. By onethird. Not economic output. But growth in g. D. P. Second number, three, the number of times we have tried to get a vote on this. The number of times our republican colleagues have this year tried to resolve the sequester issue. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from florida is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Wasserman schultz i rise today in support of this comprehensive and bipartisan effort to end violence against women. The violence against women act recently passed by the Senate Updates this crucial legislation by providing necessary resources and support to all victims of Domestic Violence regardless of their r