Today, I want to talk to you about the most significant step we've ever taken to secure the health and safety of women at home and around the world. I'm signing called the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act.
Domestic violence is a criminal activity.
It devastates its victims and affects us all. It increases health costs, keeps people from showing up to work, prevents them from performing at their best. The bill I'm signing will keep that progress going by keeping the Violence Against Women Act the law of the land. It provides new resources for Native American communities, restores protections for battered immigrant women, and for the first time extends a law to cover women abused by their boyfriends. VAWA was included in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act Conference Report, which passed in the House of Representatives last Friday by a vote of 371 to one.