House Renews Violence Against Women Act

Beohner offered a more draconian GOP Bill and this one as an excuse to bring it to the Floor, and got the 3rd bipartisan Bill they have passed this year without a majority of the Majority Republicans.

The fiscal cliff and legislation to extend Superstorm Sandy aid were the others.

Being a minority Speaker is hard werk. Which is why, they say we don't have a sequester bill... he would lose his Speakership if he dared bring it to the Floor.

"The Act provides $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposes automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allows civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave unprosecuted.

The Act also establishes the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice. Male victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking may also be covered.[1]"

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"Every single day in America three women die at the hands of domestic violence. Yet this Congress allowed the Violence Against Women Act to expire more than 500 days ago," Democratic Caucus chairman Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said on the House floor shortly before the vote. "The failure or reluctance of this House to do its work for the American people seems to have now become business as usual. This should not be the new normal."

"Over more than two decades, this law has saved countless lives and transformed the way we treat victims of abuse," President Obama wrote in a statement after the vote. "Renewing this bill is an important step towards making sure no one in America is forced to live in fear, and I look forward to signing it into law as soon as it hits my desk."

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The point was to make crimes that go under-prosecuted because of lack of funding prosecutable.

It's because domestic abuse victims are usually women and the abuse often goes unreported (out of fear) or unprosecuted until, well, until 3 woman a day die of it.

Republicans have tried for years to defund it, and in this Congress kept from renewing it for as long as possible.

#12 Of course, the old Hebrews were one of few ancient peoples whose ruling authority also ran through the female lines, but let's not cloud the issue with facts.

#16 You might want to actually read this link. Unless you have no mother, daughter, sister, etc.

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#19 Same old curmudgery.

#21 |Read/learn

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