Victims of domestic violence could receive an additional $15 million in funding for desperately needed services that they had been denied, advocates say.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., has provided a fiscal 2009 Appropriation Committee Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee spending bill including $415 million for the Department of Justice?s Violence Against Women Office ? a $135 million increase above President Bush?s request to cut violence against women programs.

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