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vawa as it's called. vawa included the sexual assault forensic evidence reporting act or safer, which allows and mandates that 75% of what is called debbie smith d.n.a. backlog grant funds, go directly to test the long backlog of rape kits. the bottom line money has been allocated to fund the backlog of 400000 rape kits. funds are required to be made available for audits so we could find the true number of languishing kits throughout different states and test them. the goal of safer was to ensure that no rape kit went untested, so all victims had answers and all rapists were brought to justice. yet, mr. speaker, it's been two years. kits remain in basements on dusty shelves and nothing has changed. the money is there the law is written, but the d.o.j., d.o.j. dodge shamelessly ignores this mandate leaving sexual assault victims waiting for justice. meanwhile, untested rape kits create unfair treatment of victims. one thing it does it allows the guilty outlaws to go free and prevents the innocent from bein

undermining the spirit and protections of vawa and effectively pushing immigrant survivors and their children, many of whom are likely u.s. citizens, deeper and deeper into the shadows of danger. it undermines the policies that local communities have determined are appropriate for their localities to ensure that victims of crime come forward without fear of tretry bution. it a -- retribution. it allows violent crimes to go uninvestigated. and leaves victims without redress because of reductions in funding. this bill would have damaging ramifications for families across the nation and in my home state of maryland. i have here and ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women, representing coalitions organizations, shelters, and services, and programs in every single state in this country. and i'd ask unanimous consent to enter their letter into record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to quote from this letter. it says fear of depo

military service we reordinary violence against women act or vawa.we passed the affordable care act so that one could be denied health care because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. and we have seen landmark victories in the supreme court first in the edith windsor case where it was ruled unconstitutional for the federal government to discriminate and last month when the court reaffirmed that -- quote -- "love is love" and ensured that marriage equality would come to all 50 states. that is a significant number of steps a significant number of strides on the path towards full equality. and it happened in a relatively short period of time. but we are far from where we need to be. full equality for every american as long as people are afraid to put their spouse's photo on their desk at work, as long as they are worried about being evicted from their apartment if they don't pretend to be just roommates, we've got a lot of work to do. the harsh reality remains that in far too many states there are still no laws explicitly prohibiting discrim