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posted March 17, 2021 08:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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The House approved with bipartisan support a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a popular 1994 law that protects and provides resources for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. The measure passed 244-172.

As a senator, President Biden played a lead role in passing the landmark law, which he recently called "one of my proudest legislative achievements."

The law was last reauthorized in 2013, but it lapsed at the end of 2018 after Congress failed to act due to partisan disputes over guns and transgender issues. The lapse has had little practical effect because Congress continues to fund related programs despite the lack of authorization.

The core legislation has broad support, but certain provisions added to the bill in the previous Congress exposed divisions among Republicans. In 2019, the House passed the measure with 33 Republicans voting with Democrats, but it was never brought up in the then-GOP-led Senate.

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In a statement Wednesday evening, Biden said "writing and passing VAWA is one of the legislative accomplishments of which I'm most proud," and urged the Senate to follow suit.

"This should not be a Democratic or Republican issue — it's about standing up against the abuse of power and preventing violence," he said.

A number of Republican senators said this week they are working on finding a bipartisan compromise that can pass the now-Democratic-controlled chamber. "I think it's fair to say that there is a good strong interest in trying to advance VAWA," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

The most contentious issue in the House-passed bill is a provision that expands the criminal threshold to bar an individual from buying a gun to include misdemeanor convictions of domestic abuse or stalking. It would also close the so-called boyfriend loophole to expand the definition of who is affected by existing gun prohibitions to include dating partners. "This legislation makes it clear that Democrats consider gun ownership a second-class right," said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.

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In 2019, the National Rifle Association opposed the legislation for the first time, which put GOP lawmakers in a tough political position of voting against a popular law to support victims of domestic and sexual violence, or voting against the gun lobby. The NRA continues to oppose the legislation because of the gun provisions.

"The NRA did not score the legislation until last Congress because it never impacted Second Amendment rights," said Jason Ouimet, executive director of the NRA's lobbying arm. "However, Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and anti-gun lawmakers chose to insert gun control provisions into this bill in 2019 to pit pro-gun lawmakers against it so that they can falsely and maliciously claim these lawmakers don't care about women."

The House-passed bill would also strengthen existing protections for transgender women to access women's shelters and serve in prisons that match their gender identity.

VAWA advocates say the gun and transgender provisions are necessary to protect victims. "Everything that we advocate for in VAWA is based on the reality of what we know victims are being subjected to, and what we know survivors need to seek safety, accountability, healing," Jennifer Becker, deputy legal director of Legal Momentum, the oldest legal advocacy group for women in the country, told NPR. "These provisions are central to ensuring that people stay alive," she said.

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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., the lead Republican sponsor of the legislation, echoed that sentiment and said the updated version of the law "addresses the challenges identified by survivors and by domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, and other organizations that serve survivors."

Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the House Rules Committee, supports the legislation but called the provisions "unnecessarily partisan" and said they could once again block its reauthorization. "The last time we adopted this course of action, frankly, the legislation was never enacted into law, and I am afraid we are running that risk again." Cole voted in favor of the bill because it provides critical assistance to the Native American communities in his state.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is taking the lead on crafting the Senate GOP's counterproposal to the House bill. "What we're hoping to show is that we have enough Republican support on our bill, and that we're willing to work with Democrats on this, and hopefully, by combining forces we can come up with the 60 votes needed, and pass a good modernized bill that will work for the Senate," she said Tuesday.

However, Ernst indicated the gun provisions would be a problem in the Senate. "That's a big one for a number of us, some stripping away of people's constitutional rights is not something that we should be doing," she said, "So why don't we just kind of backtrack a little bit and figure out where we can agree?"

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told reporters Tuesday that VAWA would get a vote in the Senate. "We're ready to move," he said.


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posted March 17, 2021 08:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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BREAKING: The US House has passed the Violence Against Women Act, two years after the GOP let it lapse in 2019. More than 1 in 3 women will suffer gender based violence during their lifetimes—largely at the hands of violent men. This bill provides critical funding for women and has long served as a unifying bill in Congress.

Tragically, 172 Republicans voted to block this critical bill. Think about that. Less than 24 hours after one of the worst attacks against women in recent memory, 172 Republicans voted AGAINST the Violence Against Women Act.

This critical Act was one of the most bipartisan bills in American history—but the GOP has sadly decided they just don't care about women. Inexcusable. Elections matter and this crucial bill to protect women from abuse is another example of why each of us must stay engaged and vote like our lives depend on it. Because they do.



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posted March 17, 2021 08:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have you read this Act, teasel? Please share your link to it with the rest of the class so we may come to an informed opinion rather than rely on biased sources and scant third hand info. thnx

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posted March 17, 2021 09:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not in the mood. You guys can google if you like. I'm sure you'll enjoy whatever the Epoch Times or Breitbart comes up with.

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posted March 17, 2021 11:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Because what the bill actually says doesn't matter to teasel--only the title and what the media tells her the bill says is what matters. As just one striking example, in this $1.9 trillion behemoth only 9 percent is about COVID.

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I am trying to understand how forcing women's shelters to accept transgenders as part of this Act is an improvement in the fight of violence against women?

Why not just create shelters for transgenders? That would be so simple and easy and would generate no controversy.

Apparently, simple and easy are not where we are at politically.

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posted March 18, 2021 05:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I am trying to understand how forcing women's shelters to accept transgenders as part of this Act is an improvement in the fight of violence against women?

Any reasonable person could see, and any honest person willingly admit, that it is not in the interest of women. Women are being sacrificed to the woke trans lobby's authoritarian agenda. And we are so far down this road, many women are too afraid to speak out against it and advocate for their own safety.

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posted March 18, 2021 05:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by teasel:
Not in the mood. You guys can google if you like. I'm sure you'll enjoy whatever the Epoch Times or Breitbart comes up with.

Once again, the ACT itself. Not a biased source commenting on the Act. No middlemen. No regurgitating the approved narrative, right or left. The novel approach of reading the Act and forming our own opinion. Do you understand???

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posted March 18, 2021 05:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueRoamer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Republican Party has failed to protect women for decades

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posted March 18, 2021 06:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
sniveling but but but whataboutism again

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