Eye Recommend --- House G.O.P. Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed by Senate Die Without a Vote

HOUSE GOP LETS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT PASSED BY SENATE DIE WITHOUT A VOTE, by Laura Bassett and Jennifer Bendery --
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/violence-against-women-act-_n_2398553.html

"Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate's 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native American women...

...In April, the Senate with bipartisan support passed a version of VAWA that extended protections to three groups of domestic violence victims who had not been covered by the original law, but House Republicans refused to support the legislation with those provisions, saying the measures were politically driven. Instead, they passed their own VAWA bill without the additional protections. In recent weeks, however, even some House Republicans who voted for the pared-down House bill have said they would now support the broader Senate bill -- and predicted it would pass if Republican leaders let it come to the floor for a vote."

No, Mr. Cantor, we don't understand.   Neither do we understand why Speaker Boehner would refuse to bring it to the floor of the House for a vote.

The VAWA was originally passed in 1994 with unanimous bi-partisan support. It was renewed in 2000 and 2005 with over-whelming bi-partisan support.  What your anti-VAWA stand tells us is that in 2012/13 you value politics over people--that you think abuse is okay if it is perpetrated against a same-sex partner, an illegal alien or an Native American--and that position is simply incomprehensible.

I originally addressed this issue in March of last year. You can read it here: http://whateyethynk-politics.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-previously-unanimous-agreement.html