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<\/p>\r\n• PHOTOS: Not Invisible Act & Savanna\u2019s Act Celebration with Speaker Pelosi<\/a><\/strong>\r\n <\/p>\r\nWashington, D.C.<\/strong> — Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed Congresswoman Deb Haaland\u2019s (NM-01) Not Invisible Act and Congresswoman Norma Torres\u2019 (CA-35) Savanna\u2019s Act. The two bills work to address the missing and murdered indigenous women\u2019s crisis. \r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cAll women deserve to live without fear of disappearing without a trace, but the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis persists and indigenous people continue to go missing. Today, Speaker Pelosi stood with us to address the MMIW crisis and signed the Not Invisible Act and Savanna\u2019s Act. Next stop for our bills to keep Indigenous people from disappearing is the President\u2019s desk,\u201d said Congresswoman Deb Haaland, Co-Chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/p>\r\n\u201cNative women have endured horrific rates of assault, rape and murder for far too long in this country, and each life lost or scarred by violence is absolutely inexcusable. When Congressman Newhouse and I passed Savanna\u2019s Act, and Congresswoman Haaland passed the Not Invisible Act earlier this week, it was a monumental moment in the fight to end the MMIW crisis. I am grateful that Speaker Pelosi welcomed Congresswoman Haaland and me today to sign our bills, and I look forward to both vital pieces of legislation becoming law of the land,\u201d said Congresswoman Norma Torres.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\nThe Not Invisible Act of 2019 [S.982<\/a>], if signed into law, will be the first bill in history to be introduced and passed by four members of federally recognized tribes: Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna), Tom Cole (Chickasaw Nation), Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk Nation), and Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee Nation). The Not Invisible Act creates an advisory committee on violent crime composed of law enforcement, tribal leaders, federal partners, service providers, and survivors to make recommendations to the Department of Interior and Department of Justice and provide best pracitices.\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\nSpeaker Pelosi also signed Savanna\u2019s Act [S.227<\/a>] a bill led by U.S. Representative Norma Torres and co-led by Congresswoman Haaland named in honor of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year old pregnant member of the Spirit Lake Tribe who was tragically murdered in August 2017. Savanna\u2019s Act addresses the disturbing increase in murdered and missing Native American women by creating new guidelines for responding to such cases, and by incentivizing their implementation.\r\n![\"debhaalandnancypelosnormatorres\"](\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/debhaalandnancypelosnormatorres-scaled.jpg\")
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