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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…

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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…

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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.

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Senate launches new effort to move on gay-inclusive anti-violence bill

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, bolstered by Republican support, on Monday launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding its provisions to cover gays, lesbians and Native Americans.

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Democrats work to extend gay-inclusive anti-violence bill

Congressional Democrats have renewed their push to revive the key federal program that protects women against domestic violence. They sought to diminish Republican objections that blocked passage of the legislation last year by removing a provision…

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