Jennie Waldrop, animal, dairy and poultry sciences senior, was raped on Nov. 21, 2005. With the help of her attorney, a rape crisis adviser and friends, her attacker is now behind bars in Angola Prison, where he is serving a life sentence without the chance of parole. “I have felt very blessed to have received the resources that I have,” Waldrop, 30, said. “I think that every victim, man or woman, out there, deserves no less than what I received.” Waldrop said Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) was wrong in voting against an amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors that prohibit victims of rape or assault from bringing their cases to court. Louisiana’s other U.S. Senator, Democrat Mary Landrieu, voted in favor of the amendment. The amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, authored by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), stems from a case in which former KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Lee Jones claimed co-workers drugged and gang raped her in 2005. Jones signed a contract including a mandatory arbitration clause, which means any legal dispute must be settled out of court with a third party, when she began working there. Vitter, along with 29 other male Republican senators, voted against the government prohibiting such clauses. Waldrop confronted Vitter about his decision after a town-hall meeting in Baton Rouge on Saturday. A YouTube video of the conversation has garnered more than 100,000 views.”I was able to put the person who attacked me in prison,” she told Vitter in the video. “And what allowed me to do that was our judicial process.” Vitter told Waldrop he was supportive of any case like hers being prosecuted criminally to the full extent of the law. He said the language of the law was not worded how she interpreted it, and President Barack Obama was also against the amendment. Waldrop, in a conference call organized by the Louisiana Democratic Party, told reporters Tuesday she still wants to know why Vitter voted against the legislation. She also said she wants an apology from Vitter for his on-camera actions.Waldrop said her rape adviser contacted her about going to the town-hall meeting and confronting Vitter and told her the state’s Democratic Party was looking for a rape survivor to be represented during the meeting. Franken’s amendment passed in the Senate 68-30 last month.Calls to Vitter’s Washington, D.C., office and the Louisiana GOP were not returned before press time. —-Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]