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Vote Alert: Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act with gun control and transgender add-ons
April 04, 2019
This vote was to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
The original Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 made domestic violence a federal crime, in addition to a state or local crime. In 2013, conservatives opposed reauthorizing VAWA because the law allows for causing “emotional distress” to be classified as domestic violence. While conservatives abhor domestic violence and advocate for the rule of law, the lack of authority for this legislation in the Constitution gave conservatives pause. But this time there’s more.
House Democrats have added new gun control provisions to VAWA, expanding the category of individuals who could have their Second Amendment rights infringed to include things that aren’t felonies and aren’t considered domestic violence.
Democrats also added protections for men who identify as women, requiring shelters and prisons to house transgender inmates according to how they identify themselves, not by their biological sex. Conservatives oppose this transgender ideology, which denies biological reality and endangers actual women.
Additionally, there are provisions that would allow U.S. citizens to be tried in tribal courts for crimes of domestic or dating violence committed on native lands, removing the constitutional right of these Americans to face a jury of their peers when accused of a crime.
Ultimately, conservatives believe that state and local governments are better equipped to stop domestic violence than the federal government. The Democrat add-ons make a bad law worse.
The House of Representatives voted to reauthorize VAWA on April 4, 2019, at 12:33 p.m. ET in a roll call vote of 263 – 158.
To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that comprise the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.
Conservative position: NO
U.S. House of Representatives*
*Minority party (Republicans) in italics
YEAs — 263
Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Balderson Barragán Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brindisi Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Burchett Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cárdenas Carson (IN) Carter (TX) Cartwright Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Cummings Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Davis, Rodney Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garamendi García (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez | Gonzalez (OH) Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Herrera Beutler Higgins (NY) Hill (CA) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Luján Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Marchant Matsui McAdams McBath McCaul McCollum McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Olson Omar | Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Perlmutter Peters Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Reed Rice (NY) Richmond Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Sánchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stauber Steil Stevens Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wagner Walden Walorski Waltz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Williams Wilson (FL) Yarmuth Young Zeldin |
NAYs — 158
Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Banks Barr Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Brady Brooks (AL) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comer Conaway Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Duffy Duncan Dunn Emmer Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs | Gohmert Gooden Gosar Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hunter Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McClintock McHenry McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin | Newhouse Norman Nunes Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Peterson Posey Ratcliffe Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spano Stefanik Steube Stewart Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Timmons Tipton Walberg Walker Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho |
Voted “Present” — 1
Fortenberry |
Not Voting — 9
Clark (MA) Cook Granger | Kustoff (TN) Long McEachin | Rooney (FL) Rutherford Ryan |
*Minority party (Republicans) in italics
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