Honorable Mary Gay Scanlon
United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Democrat
Representative Scanlon, of the Fifth District of Pennsylvania, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. She served as an attorney at the Education Law Center and then joined the law firm Ballard Spahr as pro bono counsel. She sits on the following committees: House Judiciary, where she is Vice Chair; Rules; and the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. The following is from the April 3, 2019, House floor debate on H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. This year, we are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, VAWA, a landmark…
