House Passes Violence Against Women Act

[mtbturtle]

By John Parkinson | May 16, 2012 6:51pm | ABC News

The House voted this evening to approve the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act, also known as VAWA, 222-205. The bill would have failed had it not won the support of six Democrats.

Twenty-three Republicans voted against the bill with most of the House Democratic Caucus.

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The six Democrats voting with the GOP majority were Reps. John Barrow of Georgia, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Jim Matheson of Utah, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, and Collin Peterson of Minnesota.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/house-passes-violence-against-women-act/

[mtbturtle]

headline should read waterdowned VAWA.

[owleye]

Yes, equality and justice for some. Is this progress? My guy Glenn Greenwald wrote his most recent and most thoughtful book about the two-tiered justice system in the U.S, entitled "With Liberty and Justice for Some" In my view it defines what America has become.

James