Earlier this month, the Violence Against Women Act was passed by the Senate, 78 to 22. According to a HuffPo report, the bill had 62 cosponsors, and actually picked up “additional support from a handful of Republicans.” So, the next move was in the House, and yesterday, February 22, the House Republicans once again revealed [...]
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House Republicans Scuttle Violence Against Women Act
THE REPUBLICAN war on women keeps on giving. From Huffington Post: Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate’s 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native [...]
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