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National Organization of Women (NOW) President Terry O'Neill (C) participates in a rally in support of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on Capitol Hill June 26. NOW, the National Task Force to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Against Women, and other groups rallied for the reauthorization of VAWA.
The House and Senate have passed competing versions of the Violence Against Women Act and are now at an impasse. Women rights' activists who support the more comprehensive, bipartisan Senate version sought to bring the issue back into the spotlight with a rally in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.
House Republicans originally disagreed with the Senate's added protections for groups not previously specifically covered by this legislation, first passed in 1994: groups like same-sex couples, illegal immigrants, and Native Americans. Now House leadership says the problem they have with the Senate version is actually related to a technical issue in the language.
From The Hill:
House Republicans say the Senate must fix a provision that renders its bill unconstitutional because it raises revenue. Legislation that raises revenue must originate in the lower chamber...
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the House had passed a bipartisan reauthorization of the law and stood ready to work with the Senate "once the Senate eliminates the unconstitutional provision" in its bill. Six House Democrats signed on to that version, while 23 Republicans voted against it.
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"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it." - Madonna
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as the webmaster of the satirical e-zine known as www.strongwomen.info, i would like to say that now is the time for the stronger gender to sever a breast off of any Strongwoman. it's time for men to beat the Strongwoman down to submission and lob off one of her milk jugs when she's fully awake...which actually would be a slap in the face to the lorena bobbitts of the world, as well as ANY meek Strongwoman who must wait for men to fall asleep before seeing a chance to hurt them. after all, the B is silent in the word WOMB - put that in front of MAN to get WOMMAN or WOMAN, and that justifies the little female's place in this world.
too many little females are trying to justify their superiority over men by sneaking up while men are sleeping and removing a body part. therefore, men should do one better and justify their superiority by slicing a wombn's breast off while the wombn is fully awake. let her know that all this Strongwoman propaganda does not make members of the pipsqueak-gender taller or wider or even stronger than men. let Strongwoman know that propaganda is not going to turn her milk-leaks and her monthly blood-leak into something not related to the truth about the purpose of Strongwoman.
sever a breast off of a feminist, it's long overdue. you would think that Strongwoman would learn that she can't excel like a man, just from the mere existences of gender-based college sports teams and gender-based military requirements. just from the "coney island hot dog eating competition" having to add a separate "womens' division" because females cannot excel over (only alongside of) men just from the fitness centers admitting only members of the weaker gender in honor of the "retard bus". heck, you'd think they'd learn they can't do anything as well as men, just from the "ladies only" poker nights at casinos. they NEED their own "retard bus" or, if you will, "affirmative action".
Strongwoman apparently has not learned the reason she needs things to be gender-based, so maybe this movement will teach her. sever a breast off of a feminist. period. any feminist: black or white, princess or pauper. let's go, men.
"oh, god, mother...BLOOD, BLOOD!"
"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it." - Madonna
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