Mr. Speaker. as we celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. I rise today to highlight the issue as it affects minority communities. Although domestic violence is blind to race and ethnicity. racial and ethnic minority women. immigrant women. face unique challenges to reporting and getting help for domestic violence. Just this morning. I learned that the managers amendment to todays VAWA reauthorization bill strikes the language "racial and ethnic minorities" from the definition of underserved communities. After all the bipartisan work that we have been conducting for the past year on this particular reauthorization. I am outraged that at the last minute.
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