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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:08 PM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

Senate OKs renewing Violence Against Women Act

Source: SC Herald Online

The Senate has passed a bill to renew the government's main domestic violence program.

The 68-31 vote to renew and expand the Violence Against Women Act sends the matter to the House, which is writing its own version.

The 1994 law is designed to protect women and children from abuse, and historically has been without controversy. But this election year, gender politics roiled the debate for weeks.

Democrats accused Republicans standing in the way and waging a "war against women."

But Republicans never tried to block the measure. Instead they proposed removing specific references to protecting gays, lesbian and transgender people, and capping the number of visas for battered immigrants.

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/04/26/3927309/deal-on-senate-vote-on-violence.html

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Senate OKs renewing Violence Against Women Act (Original post)	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	OP
68-31 deserves better than "OKs"!	bluedigger	Apr 2012	#1
Or 'passes' :)	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#5
Sorry, have to use the actual title	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	#6
I understand; my griping was directed at the editor.	bluedigger	Apr 2012	#8
This message was self-deleted by its author	bluedigger	Apr 2012	#7
My lesbian daughter was a victim of domestic abuse	HockeyMom	Apr 2012	#2
Now it will go to the House and die or be rewritten so it is not recognizable.	appleannie1	Apr 2012	#3
So there's 31 Senators who are OK with violence against women? They need to be called out.	Scuba	Apr 2012	#4
+1	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#10
I bet not one of them is up for re-election this year	LynneSin	Apr 2012	#12
See comment #14. All five of the female republicans senators voted 'yea' with the dems n/t	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#16
but that still means 10 more republicans voted for it	LynneSin	Apr 2012	#21
"Violence against women? I'll vote for that!"	thesquanderer	Apr 2012	#13
Here ya go ...	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#17
Thanks. Good to see no Dems on the list.	Scuba	Apr 2012	#18
Thank you?	Rhiannon12866	Apr 2012	#9
I wonder how the House will vote.	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#11
Here's a link to the 'roll call'	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#14
Could be that I missed it, but	Trillo	Apr 2012	#15
See comment #5. The bill passed in 'original form' n/t	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#19
Image	Tx4obama	Apr 2012	#20
Amazing how badly the GOP hates basic human rights	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	#22
for everyone actually	eyewall	Apr 2012	#23
true. n/t	ProfessionalLeftist	Apr 2012	#24
So, NICE TRY, ugly misogynists.	BlueIris	Apr 2012	#25
Now to get it past the Repigs in the House. Fat chance of that. Nice to know where they stand.	freshwest	Apr 2012	#26

Response to ProfessionalLeftist (Original post)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:11 PM

bluedigger (10,580 posts)

1. 68-31 deserves better than "OKs"!

How about "endorses" or "approves"?

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:23 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

5. Or 'passes' :)

Senate Passes Violence Against Women Act | The Senate just passed the third reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Though Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) were attempting to water down the bill through amendments, they ultimately failed and the bill passed in its original form. The politicization of domestic violence isn’t over yet, though– the bill now moves onto the House of Representatives, where it’s already been emotionally debated. Republicans have already said that they will try to mirror the watered down language of the Senate amendment that did not pass.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/26/470585/senate-passes-violence-against-women-act/

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:25 PM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

6. Sorry, have to use the actual title

of the article in LBN - and that's the title!

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:37 PM

bluedigger (10,580 posts)

8. I understand; my griping was directed at the editor.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:14 PM

HockeyMom (10,721 posts)

2. My lesbian daughter was a victim of domestic abuse

She shouldn't be protected because by religious bigots she was a "sinner"? Are they going to exempt unmarried women too? Any female who doesn't meet their religous bigoted views?

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:15 PM

appleannie1 (2,988 posts)

3. Now it will go to the House and die or be rewritten so it is not recognizable.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:20 PM

Scuba (26,783 posts)

4. So there's 31 Senators who are OK with violence against women? They need to be called out.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:43 PM

sakabatou (29,096 posts)

10. +1

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:46 PM

LynneSin (89,793 posts)

12. I bet not one of them is up for re-election this year

Last edited Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:47 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Any republican who voted for the bill knew this was a hot potato that would impact anyone up for re-election voting against it.

My guess is the senators from Maine and Lisa Murkowski did vote for the bill.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:20 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

16. See comment #14. All five of the female republicans senators voted 'yea' with the dems n/t

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:47 PM

LynneSin (89,793 posts)

21. but that still means 10 more republicans voted for it

and I will gander a guess that most of them are up for reelection

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:46 PM

thesquanderer (1,110 posts)

13. "Violence against women? I'll vote for that!"

That's probably how they got the Republican votes they DID get.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:22 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

17. Here ya go ...

NAYs ---31
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00087

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:23 PM

Scuba (26,783 posts)

18. Thanks. Good to see no Dems on the list.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:38 PM

Rhiannon12866 (54,951 posts)

9. Thank you?

Kind of a lukewarm vote...

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:43 PM

sakabatou (29,096 posts)

11. I wonder how the House will vote.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:19 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

14. Here's a link to the 'roll call'

Here: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00087

Note: all five the republican female senators voted with the democrats (Ayotte, Collins, Hutchison, Murkowski, Snowe)
and ten republican male senators voted 'yea' too.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:20 PM

Trillo (7,230 posts)

15. Could be that I missed it, but

the article says it passed, but it didn't seem clear on whether it passed with the Republican excisions, or not.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:23 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

19. See comment #5. The bill passed in 'original form' n/t

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:27 PM

Tx4obama (28,965 posts)

20. Image

https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/195639436392927232/photo/1

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:13 PM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

22. Amazing how badly the GOP hates basic human rights

for women.

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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:16 PM

eyewall (660 posts)

23. for everyone actually

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except rich white men.

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Fri Apr 27, 2012, 12:18 AM

ProfessionalLeftist (4,982 posts)

24. true. n/t

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Fri Apr 27, 2012, 12:36 AM

BlueIris (29,135 posts)

25. So, NICE TRY, ugly misogynists.

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Fri Apr 27, 2012, 01:00 AM

freshwest (31,524 posts)

26. Now to get it past the Repigs in the House. Fat chance of that. Nice to know where they stand.

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