Republicans insist the Democrats’ claim of a “war on women” is simply a fairytale. Yet every week the GOP pushes another anti-woman policy that proves that this fairytale is reality. This week, my Senate GOP colleagues blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would have ensured women earn equal pay for equal work. Sounds simple enough, but not to my Republican friends who managed to use every manner of double-speak to justify opposing this bill. This was not the first time we have seen th...
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Recently, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4), along with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announced the release of over $1.2 million in grant funding for Word of Hope Ministries.
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AMID THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN, THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN FROM WISCONSIN AIN’T NEVER SCARED Throughout the GOP-led assault on women’s reproductive health rights, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) has served as a soldier of love for women of color, poor women and victims of sexual and physical abuse. Moore consistently commands the House floor and deploys pieces of her personal story to shame the mostly White male lawmakers who are hostile to women’s reproductive health rights, birth control, the Viol...
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The House passed their version of the Violence Against Women Act on Wednesday, and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) is not happy that the bill does not include protections for LGBT, Native American and undocumented immigrant women. Moore has previously shared her personal story of being sexually assaulted as a child and raped as a young woman, and during a press conference this week she told reporters that her past makes the stripped-down bill particularly upsetting. "One experience that I had, that oc...
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By Staff|5/16/2012 3:05 PM (Talk Radio News Service) House Democrats voiced extreme opposition to a GOP version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) they argue lacks provisions that extend the authority of the law to minority women, Native American women and members of the LGBT community. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued that the Republican bill “is a step backward” from current legislation. Instead, House Democrats are pressing leadership to take up a Senate version tha...
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By Pete Kasperowicz - 05/16/12 01:20 PM ET The House on Wednesday voted to move ahead with a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), after Democrats tried blocking it by raising a point of order. Democrats oppose the House bill, which omits language prohibiting discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people under the law, does not go as far as a Senate bill to protect Native Americans, and makes it harder for illegal immigrant victims of domestic abuse t...
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By KATE NOCERA | 5/16/12 3:08 PM EDT Rep. Gwen Moore spoke forcefully against the House version of the Violence Against Woman Act and openly talked about her own experience as a victim of violence and sexual assault. Moore sponsored the Democratic version of the bill, the twin to the Senate’s re-authorization. “As a member of this body and a survivor of sexual assault…I can tell you it’s traumatic to be here today and to find my colleagues not taking the recommended updates that people who work...
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(CBS News) The GOP-led House on Wednesday voted to approve the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a piece of legislation that is the subject of partisan controversy despite the fact that both parties hope to see some it passed in some form. After an impassioned debate on the House floor Wednesday, the bill passed with 222 members voting in favor and 205 voting against. But now, both chambers of Congress must figure out how to reconcile the House bill with the Senate-passed version. VAWA, which ...
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The Violence Against Women Act breezed through the Congress in previous years, but it's suddenly a heavy lift. The GOP House passed its version of the bill on a largely party-line vote, but getting to yes with the Senate will be tough. By David Grant, Staff writer / May 16, 2012 WASHINGTONA day of dramatic, emotional debate in the House of Representatives gave way to a narrow but largely partisan vote to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act on Wednesday. VAWA, passing 222-205 with 23 Repu...
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