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Republicans argued the Equality Act hurts women & then voted against women’s rights bills
House Republicans didn’t seem to get the memo that the GOP is now the party of women’s liberation when they voted against the ERA and the VAWA.
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The GOP wants to stop a law that protects women because it also protects trans people
The House Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, but not without a fight.
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Republicans told Elizabeth Warren to shut up and sit down, and that is violence
49 Republican Senators voted to censure a woman for not following a rule they don’t expect men to follow.
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Obama signs LGBT-inclusive domestic violence bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill into law.
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U.S. House approves anti-violence law with LGBT protections
WASHINGTON — House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.
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House to take up Senate’s LGBT-inclusive version of anti-violence act
WASHINGTON — Congress appeared on a course to renew the expired Violence Against Women Act after House Republican leaders on Tuesday agreed to take up a version of the 1994 anti-domestic violence law that passed the Senate two weeks ago by a wide, bipartisan margin.
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House GOP to strip protections for gays in its version of anti-violence act
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate appeared headed for another partisan battle as the House prepared to take up its version of the once-noncontroversial Violence Against Women Act.
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Boehner: House may consider Senate version of Violence Against Women Act
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that the GOP’s House leadership is considering a plan for moving forward with the Violence Against Women Act legislation.
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Senate renews Violence Against Women Act with new protections for gays
WASHINGTON — By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, immigrants and Native American women will have equal access to the act’s anti-domestic violence programs.
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U.S. Senate poised to renew gay-inclusive domestic violence law
WASHINGTON — The Senate is poised to rewrite the federal government’s principal anti-domestic abuse law with new protections for gays, lesbians, immigrants and Native American women.