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Vote Alert: Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act with gun control and transgender add-ons

Vote Alert: Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act with gun control and transgender add-ons

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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