House passes GOP-sponsored domestic violence bill despite Obama veto threat

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'On a 222-205 vote, the House passed a GOP-sponsored bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, an 18-year-old law written by then-Sen. Joe Biden that dedicates federal resources to assist victims of domestic violence.

Wednesday's vote puts the House at odds once again with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which approved its version of the bill last month on a bipartisan 68-31 vote. The Senate bill renews the act for five years, authorizes $659.3 million in annual spending and contains measures to help victims of sexual assault, improve emergency housing services for victims and consolidate some grant programs to make them more efficient.
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Republican men and women both abhor violence against women," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who supported the House version. "In fact, I would say we are more concerned about violence against women, because we want to see those women served better and we want to see the money spent better. ... We are strengthening the Violence Against Women Act, not weakening the act."
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The Republican bill was endorsed by the National Coalition for Men, whose argument in support of the legislation appeared to undercut the GOP claim that the Violence Against Women Act's language is so broad that it already covers almost all groups.

In a letter to lawmakers, the men's rights group said the bill's opponents "loudly assert that VAWA serves all people, which is absurd given the name of the Act."

"Opposing versions, by omission and lack of specificity, generally exclude men, particularly heterosexual men, regardless of specious arguments to the contrary," the letter read.'