Rape bill flap: Weed says Goode 'reckless'  Debbie Smith's
rapist wasn't caught until six years after he brutally attacked
her. The convicted felon's DNA matched that from Smith's rape
kit, and he's now serving two life terms plus 25 years.  Smith,
a Williamsburg resident, has become such an advocate for rape
victims that HR 3214– a bill to provide funding for the more
than 169,000 rape kits across the country that have never been
processed– is called the Debbie Smith Act.  It has also become
one of the first major issues in the upcoming race between
Republican incumbent Congressman Virgil Goode and his Democratic
rival, Al Weed.  The bill passed the House of Representatives
357-67 last November, but is now stalled in the Senate. Goode–
along with just one other Virginia Congressman, Edward Schrock–
voted against the bill, which Weed calls a "reckless" move.  "I
have a wife. I have a daughter," says Weed, a Nelson County
farmer. "This is a serious, serious issue. The numbers of
violent crimes against women ju