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Therefore, reauthorization and expansion of this law must be a high priority for Congress in September. No excuses.

We owe it to Nicole Brown Simpson. We owe it to Laci Peterson. We owe it to Latoyia Figueroa. And we owe it to the hundreds of thousands of other victims whose names and faces never make it onto our television screens.

To sit back and allow VAWA to expire is unthinkable. After all, the next victim could be your own daughter, sister, mother, or niece.

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