Congress has renewed a 1990s-era law that extends protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence.
, updating the landmark Violence Against Women Act nearly three years after partisan disagreements caused it to lapse.
For North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer, the connection is his adopted son whose biological mother was murdered by her husband. For Sen. Lisa Murkowski, it's the need to expand the tribal jurisdiction over non-Indian offenders in her home state of Alaska. For Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, it comes back to the frantic phone calls she received at the Houston Women’s Center in the 1990s. And for Sen.
Yet the reauthorization of the law, which aims to reduce domestic and sexual violence and improve the response to it through a variety of grant programs, almost didn't happen. The sticking point was a provision in the last proposal, passed by the House in April 2019, that would have prohibited persons previously convicted of misdemeanor stalking from possessing firearms.
This time, Democrats backed down and did not include the provision. But lawmakers like Jackson Lee say they aren't giving up. “The reason that many people struggle to leave abusive situations is that they’ve been made to feel worthless,” Jolie said a press conference with senators last month. “When there is silence from a Congress too busy to renew the Violence Against Women Act for a decade, it reinforces that sense of worthlessness.”
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