Violence Against Women Act passes Senate
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Updated 11:13 pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Senate, with broad bipartisan support, voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to expand the reach of 1994's landmark Violence Against Women Act by fortifying the power of Native American courts and explicitly protecting gay victims of abuse.
The vote came after 17 House Republicans on Monday wrote to Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, demanding immediate action on an anti-domestic-violence bill that can get bipartisan support, unlike the House bill that passed largely on party lines last year.
[...] the 2012 election results - and the yawning gender gap that kept the White House in President Obama's hands, expanded Democratic control of the Senate and chipped away at the Republicans' House majority - may have changed the political dynamics on the antiviolence bill.
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