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House passes domestic violence bill, pushes issue to Senate
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WASHINGTON (AP) With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House passed two measures Wednesday, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
House passes domestic violence bill, pushes issue to Senate
By KEVIN FREKINGMarch 18, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House passed two measures Wednesday, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act passed 244-172 with 29 Republicans joining Democrats in supporting the legislation.
The resolution to repeal the ERA’s ratification deadline passed 222-204. Both measures face a more difficult path in an evenly divided Senate.
The White House announced its support earlier Wednesday for reauthorizing VAWA, which aims to reduce domestic and sexual violence and improve the response to it through a variety of grant programs. Many of the Democratic congresswomen wore all-white outfits to commemorate the day, a nod to the women’s suffrage movement when marchers would wear white dresses to s
WASHINGTON – The House voted largely along party lines Wednesday
to remove the expired deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment for women, despite the Justice Department s view that such a move is not possible.
The resolution, which must also be approved by the Senate, says the amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever it s been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. That happened last year.
But the 222 to 204
House vote came decades after the seven-year ratification deadline set by Congress as well as a three-year extension approved when the amendment was coming close to passage in the 1970s.
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