Joe Biden Visits Domestic Violence Hotline He Helped Create
WESTLAKE HILLS, Texas -- WESTLAKE HILLS, Texas (AP) — His voice thick with emotion, Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday again toured the National Domestic Violence Hotline he helped create, calling victims of such abuse "prisoners in plain sight."
Housed in an unmarked building in suburban Austin, the hotline was founded in 2006, two years after Congress approved the federal Violence Against Women Act, which Biden sponsored while still a senator from Delaware.
"I came primary to say thank you," Biden told a packed room of staff members and media. "There's nothing I've been involved with my entire career that makes me prouder, that I think is more sustaining, is more consequential than the work you all do."
Biden previously visited the hotline as vice president in 2009 and as a senator three years earlier.
Hotline President Katie Ray-Jones said more than 100 staff members handle about 22,000 calls a month — but that capacity issues meant they still were unable to get to almost 52,000 calls in 2012 alone.
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