President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, before the president signed a memorandum creating a task force to respond to campus rapes during an event for the Council on Women and Girls.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, before the president signed a memorandum creating a task force to respond to campus rapes during an event for the Council on Women and Girls.