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The original Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 made domestic violence a federal crime, in addition to a state or local crime. This reauthorization of VAWA made changes that allowed for "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 gives conservatives pause. Conservatives have argued that state and local governments are better equipped to stop domestic violence than the federal government. This bill was approved in the House 286 – 138 on Feb. 28, 2013 and was later signed by the president on Mar. 7, 2013.
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Conservative position: NO
| Alexander Amodei Andrews Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Bass Beatty Becerra Benishek Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Boustany Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Bustos Butterfield Calvert Camp Capito Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Cole Collins (NY) Connolly Conyers Cook Cooper Costa Courtney Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cuellar Cummings Daines Davis (CA) Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Denham Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Duffy Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farenthold Farr Fattah Fitzpatrick Foster Frankel (FL) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Garcia Gardner | Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Grimm Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hanna Harper Hastings (FL) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Herrera Beutler Higgins Himes Holt Honda Horsford Hoyer Huffman Hunter Israel Issa Jackson Lee Jeffries Jenkins Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Joyce Kaptur Keating Kennedy Kildee Kilmer Kind King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Lance Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (CA) McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Messer Michaud Miller (MI) Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod Nolan Nugent Nunes O'Rourke | Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paulsen Payne Pearce Pelosi Perlmutter Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Pingree (ME) Pocan Poe (TX) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reichert Renacci Richmond Rigell Rogers (MI) Rokita Ros-Lehtinen Roybal-Allard Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schock Schrader Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Speier Stivers Swalwell (CA) Takano Terry Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiberi Tierney Tipton Titus Tonko Tsongas Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walden Walorski Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Webster (FL) Welch Wilson (FL) Yarmuth Yoder Young (FL) Young (IN) |
| Aderholt Amash Bachmann Barton Bentivolio Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Brady (TX) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Broun (GA) Burgess Campbell Cantor Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Collins (GA) Conaway Cotton Crawford Culberson DeSantis DesJarlais Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Fincher Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Garrett Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) | Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Guthrie Hall Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hensarling Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hurt Johnson (OH) Jones Jordan Kelly King (IA) Kingston Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lankford Latta Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Marchant Marino Massie McCaul McClintock Meadows Mica Miller (FL) Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nunnelee Olson Palazzo | Perry Petri Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Radel Ribble Rice (SC) Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rooney Roskam Ross Rothfus Salmon Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stockman Stutzman Thornberry Wagner Walberg Weber (TX) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoho |
| Coble Granger Hinojosa | Johnson, Sam Miller, Gary Reed | Young (AK) |
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