In the hearing on that bill, Senator
Sessions said, ``I am not sure women or people with different sexual
orientations face that kind of discrimination. I just don't see it.''
Senator Sessions repeatedly opposed a bill to reauthorize the
Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, the landmark law combating
domestic sexual violence. The bill would have expanded the law to
protect LGBT people, Native American women, and immigrant women, but he
voted against it three times. He said that ``there are matters put on
the bill that almost seem to invite opposition.'' I raised this with
Senator Sessions prior to his hearing, and I pointed out that Native
women experience an epidemic of sexual and domestic violence, much of
it at the hands of non-Indians--most of it--a large majority of it. That is not a new development.
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