I don’t know all the details of this bill, but I understand the Senate version has some terrible parts to it. We need to understand what the House GOP version was...and if it was superior, identify who voted against it and determine who the problems are.
I don’t know what ever happened to the idea of each house passing a bill and going to conference committee, but it needs to be reestablished. Seems like our House is following the Obamacare model of only passing whatever comes out of the Senate...and that is nuts.
And we need to primary every last one of these RINO's next year...
Sold out yet again by spineless Republicans.
so laws already on the books never included women ,next it will be a law for every person by name ?
Oh yeah. "It's the pandering for votes, stupid."
Nice job Republicans! Now all any illegal has to do is claim they experienced domestic violence sometime in their lives and they get an automatic golden ticket. I'm sure this provision won't be abused... /sarcasm
The Republicans have done this to us. They could have stopped it Now it is a Federal to yell at your wife or, indeed, if anyone who is a member of a protected minority feels abused or “dissed” by anyone else, that is now a federal crime.
VAWA -
Worst gov’t interference in families ever. Bad for women, bad for men, bad for children.
So instead of just enforcing existing assault laws onthe books we pass reams and reams of more new convoluted laws that are vague and easily abused by selective enforcement by government officials????
And we wonder WHY the Republic has been lost....
The VAWA, in effect, doesn’t really decrease violence against women. It’s unconstitutional and violates the rights of many conservatives—Second Amendment and others. Conservative family rights organizations estimated some 15 million adult American men and women violated, robbed and/or wrongfully incarcerated as of the late-’90s, including Dr. Emerson, put in federal prison for five years for possessing a firearm (in his office, IIRC) after being accused of domestic violence. A lower court decided to free him. A higher court decided to keep him in prison. The Supreme Court refused to hear his case.
It’s part of the reason Obama was elected and reelected. Many whose freedoms are violated by political fascists/socialists tend to reject politics and leave the polls to the debt-sucking mobs. Many who are prevented from producing (manufacturing, building, etc.) or whose property rights are violated do the same. Others simply see the wild extents to which government-funded salaries for deleterious offices climb.
Mark Levin covered this yesterday. Under this law you can lose your right to own a gun because of something you said. Levin says Eric Cantor has to go.
boner didn’t have to bring it to a vote.
cave in continues.
bad law continues.
There are some very dangerous portions of this bill.
It is now a federal felony to even utter loud or uncomfortable words to a woman.
Native American law enforcement officers can even arrest and charge people accused of uncomfortable speech toward NA women, even off of tribal lands.
GOP HOUSE VOTES AGAINST GOP BILL:
Bridenstine
Broun (GA)
Calvert
Camp
Capito
Coffman
Cole
Cook
Cotton
Culberson
Daines
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
Diaz-Balart
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibson
Gohmert
Gosar
Grimm
Hanna
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Huelskamp
Issa
Jones
Lamborn
Lance
LoBiondo
McClintock
McHenry
Meadows
Meehan
Miller (MI)
Mullin
Noem
Olson
Pearce
Petri
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Radel
Ros-Lehtinen
Runyan
Schweikert
Sensenbrenner
Simpson
Stockman
Tipton
Valadao
Yoho
Young (FL)
It’s a “first responders” and judicial regime. They now have full discretion over even larger private estates of their neighbors.
Very bad news. Good work, Boner.
Proud of Thomas Massie our only KY critter to vote against it.
Sounds good, does bad, right up Boehner's ally.
Egalitarianism has consequences. One group will govern and take the benefits the other group will feel the whip. The law eternal.
The House of Representatives passed the Violence Against Women Act, extending abuse protections to gay, lesbians, and transgender people, as well as Native Americans and immigrants.
The bill passed 286 to 138, with the support of 87 Republicans; it will now move to the president’s desk to be signed. A GOP substitute bill that left out protections for Native communities and LGBT people was defeated 166 to 257.