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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
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and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
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bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
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fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
history.</p><p>When Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/romney-laments-that-voters-wanted-free-stuff.html">blames his loss</a>
on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU</a></span><br></div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><h1></h1>
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
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it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgB8mGgU</a></span><br></div></div><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><h1>Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?</h1>
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz</a></span><br></div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><h1>Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?</h1>
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
history.</p><p>When Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/romney-laments-that-voters-wanted-free-stuff.html">blames his loss</a>
on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz</a></span><br></div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><h1>Is the GOP Punishing Women for the Election?</h1>
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
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that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
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on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
history.</p><p>When Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/romney-laments-that-voters-wanted-free-stuff.html">blames his loss</a>
on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAjDiVz</a></span><br></div></div><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><div class="newsletter_bar"><form action="/newsletters/" method="post" class="wp_newsletter">
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<div class="article_content"><p>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</p><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
history.</p><p>When Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/romney-laments-that-voters-wanted-free-stuff.html">blames his loss</a>
on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9</a></span>House Republicans have picked up right where they left off last session, by <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/gop-not-budging-on-violence-against-women-act.php" target="_blank">refusing to compromise </a>with a <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/senate-presses-house-gop-on-vawa.html" target="_blank">bipartisan coalition of Senators</a> to extend the Violence Against Women Act.</div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1001px;"><div class="newsletter_bar"><form action="/newsletters/" method="post" class="wp_newsletter">
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<div class="article_content"><p>Six months after Senate Democrats passed their version of the bill
that extends domestic violence protections to LGBT women, undocumented
immigrants and Native Americans, the two sides couldn’t be further
apart. Rather than expand protections for domestic violence victims,
House Republicans narrow who can and cannot benefit under the bill. The
House Republicans’ version also makes it more difficult to report abuse
and seek help in some instances, cuts funding for programs and scales
back protections altogether.</p><p>Despite the differences in the two versions, Senators from both
parties have reached out to House Speaker John Boehner, urging him to
take up the Senate version so that critical and popular programs do not
fall victim to political grandstanding. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged the Speaker in June to put politics
aside and do the right thing. “Saving the lives of victims of domestic
violence should be above politics. Yet politics seem to have gotten
in the way of House passage of the bipartisan Senate Violence Against
Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act,” Leahy and Murkowski wrote to
Boehner. “We cannot afford to let another day go by. We urge you to
swiftly allow for an up-or-down vote in the House on the Senate’s
bipartisan VAWA Reauthorization Act.”</p>
<div>Obviously Speaker Boehner has no intention of doing the right thing and getting the VAWA moving toward passage.</div><p>Because the two sides can’t come to a compromise the future of the
extremely popular bi-partisan measure is in serious doubt. And like with
most of legislation to come from the Tea Party-dominated House, the
fight over VAWA is as much symbolic as one that puts women in harms way.
Failing to extend VAWA means funding that goes toward state and local
domestic abuse prevention and treatment programs will dry up. But that’s
exactly the point.</p><p>As <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/11/14/ohio-house-health-committee-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood" target="_blank">Robin Marty points out,</a> conservatives are punishing women for the election. In Ohio, Republicans renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and pass <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/that-was-quick-ohio-gop-restarts-abortion-wars.html">more abortion restrictions</a>. States like Texas have decided to <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/texas-keeps-sticking-it-to-the-poor.html">forgo healthcare reform altogether</a>
for their citizens, opting out of the federal exchanges. And now House
Republicans are doing their best to dismantle one of the most successful
and popular bi-partisan, pro-woman pieces of legislation in our
history.</p><p>When Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/romney-laments-that-voters-wanted-free-stuff.html">blames his loss</a>
on the fact that President Obama campaigned promising women voters
“gifts” like free contraception and Paul Ryan laments the “urban vote,”
it is going to take a lot more than a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83892.html?hp=l1_b1">Bobby Jindal scolding</a> to suggest that the GOP is anything but a party of spiteful old men.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9">http://www.care2.com/causes/is-the-gop-punishing-women-for-the-election.html#ixzz2CgAbFnB9</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>