Senate OKs renewing Violence Against Women Act

[ProfessionalLeftist]

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

[bluedigger]

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

How about "endorses" or "approves"?

[Tx4obama]

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/

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. Sorry, have to use the actual title

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

[bluedigger]

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

[HockeyMom]

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?

[appleannie1]

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

[Scuba]

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

[sakabatou]

10. +1

[LynneSin]

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

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.

[Tx4obama]

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

[LynneSin]

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

[thesquanderer]

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

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

[Tx4obama]

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

[Scuba]

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

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Thank you?

Kind of a lukewarm vote...

[sakabatou]

11. I wonder how the House will vote.

[Tx4obama]

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.

[Trillo]

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.

[Tx4obama]

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

[Tx4obama]

20. Image

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

[ProfessionalLeftist]

22. Amazing how badly the GOP hates basic human rights

for women.

[eyewall]

23. for everyone actually

except rich white men.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

24. true. n/t

[BlueIris]

25. So, NICE TRY, ugly misogynists.

[freshwest]

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