RetiredGySgt
Diamond Member
Since VAWA was first passed into law in 1994, reporting of domestic violence has increased by 51 percent, the rate of non-fatal intimate partner violence against women has decreased by 61 percent, and the number of women killed by an intimate partner has decreased 26 percent. Furthermore, research estimates that VAWA saved nearly $14.8 billion dollars in net averted social costs in its first six years.
The VAWA
I certainly hope nobody here is arguing against it being reauthorized without the recent amendments that have the GOP currently blocking it are they? Some certainly seem to be.
I thought this was a discussion about the recent expansions to the law that does have the GOP blocking a bill that has been reauthorized in a bipartisan fashion many, many times before.
So, what are the objections to the expansions?
Take out the new stuff and it passes easily