Posted on 02/28/2013 10:10:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Washington (CNN) -- Struggling again with an issue important to women and minority groups, House Republicans on Thursday failed to pass their version of a new Violence Against Women Act and then split over a Senate version that won approval with unanimous Democratic support.
The votes reflected an emerging political reality in the GOP-led House, with a minority of Republicans joining Democrats to pass legislation supported by the public, including increasingly influential demographics such as Hispanic Americans.
By a vote of 166-257, the GOP version failed to win a majority after almost 90 minutes of debate. The House then voted 286-138 to pass the Senate version, with 87 Republicans joining all 199 Democrats to provide majority support.
Originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized since, the act provides support for organizations that serve domestic violence victims. Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.
Supporters credit the act with sharply reducing the number of lives lost to domestic violence over the past two decades.
Last year, the House and Senate were unable to compromise on another extension of the act, with Republicans opposing Democratic attempts to specify inclusion of native Americans, undocumented immigrants and lesbian, transgender and bisexual women.
However, exit polling showed President Barack Obama won strong support among women and Latino voters in the November election that also strengthened the Democratic majority in the Senate and weakened the Republican majority in the House.
Republicans then changed their stance and agreed to bring up the measure in the new Congress as long as they could offer their own version.
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We should create a bill that is called the “The Adorable Kitten Preservation and Protection against gun violence Act”
In it the Federal government give 10 dollars to every animal shelter on the first page and oh by the way ends all welfare program in the other 10,000 pages in it...
Knowing how stuipid Most the Congress Critters are the damn thing would probably pass with votes by the Dims and the RINOs...
Who would be against poor little kittens....
boner didn’t have to bring it to a vote.
cave in continues.
bad law continues.
any excuse for a tyrant...
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.
The Liberals clain the Conservative have a “War on Women”, but the liberals have waged a “War on Conservative Women on the Behalf of crazy moonbat Liberal Women” for many many years.
This violates the first and second amendment.
You're no longer free to express yourself (censorship) , and if you do you lose your right to self defense.
The Republican party likes this idea.
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.
Register the gun Owners... Check
They send a mintory woman to your doow from a federal agency to talk to you about said guns, you tell her to go to hell...
Instant Felony, guns get taken 10 mintes later by federal agents following this “provacateur” around.....
They will probably take your kids and send them to an indoctrination camp as well...
It amazes me how many existing laws haven’t been abused YET by these slimes...
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)
The Tea Party is not going to do us much good because most of them turn into Republican Establishment types once in office, or simply had no actual principles but said all the right conservative things to get elected.
with women in "combat" now, AQ will be served with restraining orders and orders for protection. that'll teach 'em. Frank Lottenturd can parachute in and take their guns.
It’s a “first responders” and judicial regime. They now have full discretion over even larger private estates of their neighbors.
Glad I am leaving the country. I can’t take this sh— any longer.
Very bad news. Good work, Boner.
Winning an argument with your wife now lands you in jail!!!!
What the hell was he thinking? Does he really believe this bill is going to be used to help people? Is he really that stupid?
I'm female. I take offense to the republican parties abuse of my personal freedoms. Can I have them all arrested now? Where do my new super powers end?
It’s all about keeping women on the plantation. It’s politics and now Democrats can say, “Conservatives don’t care about women.”
Of course, the bumper sticker will read:
Candidate X voted against the Violence Against Women Act, Why?
They weren't incumbents and they weren't democrats. That was enough, right?
/s
That's correct; they'll only get to vote twice instead of three times.
Proud of Thomas Massie our only KY critter to vote against it.
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