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A bill to combat the appallingly high rates of missing and murdered Native women has stalled in the House, despite sailing through the Senate, because a single Republican congressman from Virginia is mysteriously holding it up.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is blocking the bill, Savanna’s Act, aimed at helping the federal government respond to the grim reality that 84 percent of Native women experience violence in their lifetime. They are murdered at 10 times the national average. Goodlatte retires at the end of this term. The bill will die when he leaves.
The bill would require the Department of Justice to train law enforcement agencies to record tribal enrollment information in crime information databases. It would also require the attorney general to seek recommendations from tribes to improve access to local, state and federal crime information databases, and it would create locally developed guidelines for responding to cases of missing and murdered Native Americans.
He must be getting some good money and backing from the corrupt leaders of the Tribes that are hurting their own people.
ReplyDeleteWhat other reason could there be.
Unless he just doesn't like Native Americans.