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introduced the Combating Military Sexual Assault Act of 2013 Tuesday afternoon.

Along with Sen. McCaskill's bill, NOW supports legislation introduced this week by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), The Combating Military Sexual Assault Act, which would create a new category of legal advocates, called Special Victims' Counsels, who would be responsible for advocating on behalf of the interests of the victim.

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Mr. Obama, his aides point out, labeled the assault an "act of terror" in his first public response, in the Rose Garden, a day after it happened.

At a stop in Syracuse yesterday, Gov. George E. Pataki signed legislation to amend the state's Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2000.

The Sexual Assault Reform Act requires the state to start additional programs during 2001 and to develop standards for supervising them.

Although Mr. Obama called the assault "an act of terror" the next day, his spokesman and other senior administraiton officials continued to describe it as unplanned and part of a protest outside the American diplomatic mission.

She also was a principal advocate of the Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2001, which facilitated the prosecution of date rape and of rapes involving the use of drugs.

President Obama labeled the Benghazi assault an act of terror almost immediately — as Mitt Romney learned in the second presidential debate — but it was hard to imagine that the attack was completely unrelated to what was happening in Cairo, Tunis, Khartoum and Jakarta.

Progress now depends largely on the governor's willingness to drop -- at least for now -- controversial parts of his 52-point Sexual Assault Reform Act that are anathema to the Assembly, such as giving prosecutors the right to appeal sentences and bail decisions.

Next month, Gov. George E. Pataki plans to sign into law the Sexual Assault Reform Act, which includes a provision directing the Department of Health to develop more rape treatment programs like the one at St . Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, which treated the victim of the Central Park attack.