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USA just allowed the Violence Against Women Act to die
Topic Started: Thursday, 3. January 2013, 16:25 (486 Views)
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You'd think the Violence Against Women Act was a nonpartisan no-brainer: can't we all agree that the federal government should work to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of violent crimes against women?

Nope. For the first time since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act does not exist, because House Republicans didn't want the bill to protect immigrants, the LGBT community, and Native Americans — groups added to the bill by the Senate in April — so, after some futile attempts at compromise, they decided they'd rather let the law expire than protect millions of women who desperately need those resources.

Here's a statement from Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.):
"The House Republican leadership's failure to take up and pass the Senate's bipartisan and inclusive VAWA bill is inexcusable. This is a bill that passed with 68 votes in the Senate and that extends the bill's protections to 30 million more women. But this seems to be how House Republican leadership operates. No matter how broad the bipartisan support, no matter who gets hurt in the process, the politics of the right wing of their party always comes first."

Now, it's back to the drawing board for the new Congress — and there will be way fewer ways for both state and local government to help survivors of domestic violence until they come up with a new plan.



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Do you have a source for this article? :)
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http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/02/congress-lets-violence-against-women-act-wither-away/
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At first, I was wondering what kind of morons could let this happen, then I saw...

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Makes sense now.
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This makes me sad. It also makes me sad Bohner still has his top dog not budging position. :[
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This article seems a bit biased and kind of that paints republicans are evil, maybe there was something that they've "missed" and failed to write on the report to why they didn't pass the law, but whatever. I don't know both sides story, and law enforcement should already be investigating crimes against women and everyone to their greatest capabilities.
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Thursday, 3. January 2013, 23:59
This article seems a bit biased and kind of that paints republicans are evil, maybe there was something that they've "missed" and failed to write on the report to why they didn't pass the law, but whatever. I don't know both sides story, and law enforcement should already be investigating crimes against women and everyone to their greatest capabilities.
Well MSNBC is notoriously biased towards Democrats like Fox is biased towards Republicans. I just try to read between the lines and the fact that is pertinent to me is that this law was allowed to expire. And that's shameful, no matter which party or congressman or senator was to blame.
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