While the House has already passed a version of VAWA earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because of pressure from the National Rifle Association.
VAWA is stalled in Congress by Republicans in the Senate, who refuse to include greater gun restrictions that would reduce intimate partner violence.
The United States has not had a working Violence Against Women Act since February, when VAWA lapsed during a rush to pass legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown. And now, while the House has already passed a version of the act earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because ofThe Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Jodi Ernst , strips out House protections for women that would expand an existing ban on firearms in what is known as the “boyfriend loophole.
With more than four in five Native American women having experienced violence in their lifetime, removing recent VAWA protections that grant power to tribal courts to try these crimes would be
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