WASHINGTON ― The House passed legislation Thursday to reauthorize the ViolenceAgainst Women Act, despite the vast majority of Republicans opposing it amidpressure from the National Rifle Association
WASHINGTON ― The House passed legislation Thursday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, despite the vast majority of Republicans opposing it amid pressure from the National Rifle Association.
Most of the GOP caucus opposed the bill because of the gun measures, said Rep. Pete King , one of 33 Republicans who voted for it. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Thursday that he had concerns about the gun provisions in the VAWA bill but said they were “secondary” to other things he didn’t like. ″I was disappointed that the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization was made partisan with the inclusion of language that would strip individuals’ right to due process with respect to their 2nd Amendment rights,” he said in a statement.
“Can we stop playing political games at the expense of vulnerable women?” she said in remarks on the House floor, to cheers from Republicans and groans from Democrats. “The Democratic bill on the floor today will collect dust in the Senate.” She called out the NRA for trying to defeat the VAWA over its gun safety provisions, which she said shouldn’t even be hard to support since they respond to pretty stark statistics: One in seven women has been stalked by an intimate partner to the point where they felt afraid or believed they would be harmed. And the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%.
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