apenas la semana pasada, la cmara de representes rechaz reautorizar la versin de vawa que protegia aisexuales y transgneros.. pero hoy 87 republicanos se unieron a 199 demcratas, y aprobaron la versin ms que amplia que ya haba aprobado el senado. la organizacin siren dice que la aprobacin tambin es un triunfo para los inmigrantes. s.o.t. jazmín segura/siren 2:45:08 aquellas personas que eran más vulnerables a la violencia doméstica se han expandido estas protecciones para la comunidad inmigrante, muchas mujeres que están aqui sin documentos que son víctimas de violencia doméstica ahora va a haber muchos más fondos para estos programas. s.o.t. nancy pelosi/líder de la minoría 8:38:16 it's sad to say that with sequestration 20 million dollars. la lder de la minora en la cmara baja, nancy pelosi, dijo que an est pendiente el secuestro, o recorte automatico al gasto pblico que amenaza con eliminar 20 millones de dlares a programas de vawa. eso preocupa a la organizacin 'next door.' s.o.t. elizabeth ambrosio/'next door' 15:31:04 si no están informados y no tienen donde ir, simplemente no

i rise in support of vawa. yelling, name-calling, black eyes, bruises, belts, broken bottles, children scared and crying in the corners, crying for it to stop, the lies and cover-up us to friends and family and then the abuser gains the control and says i'm sorry. i love you. i won't do it again. i'll change. and the victim stays again and again and again year after year. the cycle of violence goes on from generation to generation just like brittany from tipton county, indiana. abused by her drug addict mother. married a man that was a victim of child abuse. and the cycle continued. brittany's husband verbally and physically abused her while their children watched. whether you are in a poor family, rich family, whether you're in the city, country or on the farm, we as members of congress have the power and the control to change her life. when brittany finally took control and made the call, it was vawa funds that made sure that the cops that responded recognized it. and i've done those ride-alongs and they are

please, do not be fooled by those viral videos and vawa passes as the house republicans cave, but firstears after the disaster in the gulf and bp is finally on trial. good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. everyone have a good week? i don't know how you all fared these past seven days, but down on wall street it got pretty wild. one of the worst single day plunges in months was followed by a near record high later in the week. on thursday afternoon the dow just about hit its highest point ever. a record that was set in the fall of 2007 before the crash of this great recession. we also learned this week that american factories expanded for the third straight month, continuing what has been the biggest jump in manufacturing since the economy began to turn around. new analysis out this week further supported the positive signs that corporate america is on the mend. the s&p 500, that's the index that tracks the stock value of the country's 500 leading companies, is up more than 120% since march of 2009. heck, the dollar gained strength this week, and all just in time for wall street banker

we guard it as -- we just passed vawa. there was a lot of discussion about vawa having -- in the last congress that passed overwhelmingly was delayed because very frankly they had some money effect in that bill. we said it was subject, therefore, to objections on our side. we haven't met very often and when we do meet the only real bills that are passed are passed in a bipartisan fashion which happened today. and when we talk about balance -- and i get very frustrated and take somebody else's money. do you want to take it out of your pocket? was the constitution of a united states which formed a more perfect union designed to take the chinese money or european money and fund our education, our health care research, our highways, our national security? of course not. it is our money. each one of us individually works hard and we apportion a part of our earnings to the common good, to the common defense, to the common investment in our future, in education, in innovation, in infrastructure. yes, we do that. and i will tell m

arkansas's tim griffin says he was proud to support the house vawa.t paragraph to see that he supported the house version and voted no on the actual law. missouri's vickie hartzler votes that she was pleased to support efforts to protect all women in this country from domestic abuse and other forms of vier lempbs. but she wasn't pleased enough to vote for the actual law. i wonder if she was pleased enough to vote against it. did these republicans think we wouldn't notice their claim that they voted for it even though they votersed against it? nice try, but we gotchya. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common se

vawa, let me go to you amanda, what are your feels on the final signing of the violence against womenact? >> it took them 500 days to do it. it is ridiculous because this was a noncontroversial, bipartisan bill before. it is indicative of how the republican party is getting swept up by the right. that they saw that for so long. it passed with pretty much everything that the democrats wanted in it. so i'm ecstatic about that. >> john: terry were you surprised so many members of congress didn't have a terrible problem with violence against gay women or undocumented mexican women or women that live on reservations? >> you know, i have to say, i was telling someone i was at the signing ceremony today and it really was a good moment. and i have been so focused particularly since the 113th congress started at get this thing passed. now that it's passed, it has been signed into law i've been taking a step back and i find myself really angry at eric cantor, at the other republican leadership who have done all they could to derail this law that literally saves lives. i think that we have -- fr

twitter on the violence against women act and alicia tweeted "any politician that would vote against vawanist in that -- is a misogynist that supports violence." we're talking here about real, physical abuse not just psychological abuse like you see every morning when joe scarborough inflicts it. if you have a comment tweet us to john fuglesang or post it on our facebook page. now, at least there's good news today about the violence against women act. somehow the house of representatives finally passed it, sending it on to the president. in particular, they passed the senate verse. the one that includes protections for women who are immigrants in lgbt couples and native american women. the house's own version had none of that and failed, deeply disappointing haters of native american women. i guess that's the ghost of andrew jackson. it was the right outcome but why on earth my friends did it take more than a year to renew this? joining me to talk about this and so many other important d.c. policy issues is the comedian and actress known for her role on susie greene on "curb your enthusia

how big of a victory is the pass angle of vawa for women, but not just for women but for the presidentwould expand that, and say not only for women as we saw in in the vice president you just played the clip. every time it's been reauthorized they've been making the bill stronger and the provision stronger to protect women, now we're protecting lgbt families immigrants and domestic partners in general. it's women, it's children, it's immigrants, native americans and other partners, male or female. i think the vice president is correct each time we reauthorize this we tweak it better and make it better to protect women and families. >> michael: you know i want--we heard the president's remarks. he talked a lot about joe biden. we just listened to joe biden. let's listen to the president praise him for his role in the bill. then i want to talk about joe bidden. >> sure. >> the women are no longer hiding in fear because of this law. girls grow up aware of their rights to be free of abuse because of this law. on behalf them and all their families i want to thank joe biden for making this a

>> it may be only a handful of republicans who are now kind of pretending they voted for vawa when theyainst it. but it's the majority of their -- of house republicans who actually voted against the violence against women act. and in certain ways, that's the bigger problem and that's what's more indicative of the problem with the republican party is that you have a party that's stuck between what the general public wants. violence -- protecting women from domestic violence is not a controversial proposition in this country. whatever the far right would like to think. >> and yet the majority of republicans passed it in the senate. >> yeah, so -- it passed by 68 votes in the senate. and yet the majority of house republicans thought that this was -- i don't know, too liberal. they -- they are enthralled to a base that opposes even very kind of common sense protections for women, for gays and lesbians, for imgrants. that was a big sticking point. >> that was. the republican bill definitely did that. karen, why would they not do that for native americans? >> well, if you believe heritage and

congress sent president obama a bill that would expand vawa. eric can'tor he oo oor held up .lly caved this week and let the bill come to the floor for a vote with provisions intact. 87 republicans, just over a third of the gop caucus, joined 199 democrats in passing the bill. so what should you know for the week coming up? the supreme court is considering a case that could have wide ramifications for consumers when it comes to the routine arbitration agreement most of us blindly agree to in nearly all aspects of daily life that involves terms of agreement and other fine print. at issue is whether corporations, in this case american express, can prevent merchants from seeking damages through litigation as part of their credit card contracts. you should know that the merchants, backed by the obama administration, say a ruling in favor of american express would prevent consumers and small businesses from banding together to pursue antitrust claims. the u.s. government is planning to push forward with a full prosecution and trial against private bradley manning, not offered a ple

we guard it as -- we just passed vawa. there was a lot of discussion about vawa having -- in the last congress that passed overwhelmingly was delayed because very frankly they had some money effect in that bill. we said it was subject, therefore, to objections on our side. we haven't met very often and when we do meet the only real bills that are passed are passed in a bipartisan fashion which happened today. and when we talk about balance -- and i get very frustrated and take somebody else's money. do you want to take it out of your pocket? was the constitution of a united states which formed a more perfect union designed to take the chinese money or european money and fund our education, our health care research, our highways, our national security? of course not. it is our money. each one of us individually works hard and we apportion a part of our earnings to the common good, to the common defense, to the common investment in our future, in education, in innovation, in infrastructure. yes, we do that. and i will tell m

this means he turns to democrats when he needs the votes to pass important bills, like he did for vawa, the fiscal cliff, and hurricane sandy relief. when only 49 republicans, only 49 republicans out of 232 voted to help our fellow citizens on the east coast who were devastated by that storm. the speaker should do the same thing with the sequester and allow the house to debate and vote on the van hollen amendment. finally, mr. speaker, this is a -- this is part of a broader republican economic plan that is to put it mildly extremely disappointing. first, republicans brought us to the brink of economic mayhem with the fiscal cliff. the last minute the senate swooped in to save the day with leadership and help from the administration. then house republicans allowed the sequester to take effect. once again playing russian roulette with our economy. now we are going to consider this hybrid c.r. that just doesn't pass muster despite the best efforts of the appropriators. no one, no one wants a government shutdown and we all know that some kind of bill funding the federal government for the

passing the vawa bill even though they had opposed passing it last year. the assaults in the context of the gun violence legislation, seven of the eight republican senators on the judiciary committee voted against closing the loopholes in the law to combat straw purchases and gun trafficking even though virtually every law enforcement agency i've heard from in this country wants us to close the loophole and in the law and wants to us stop straw purchasing where people go in and legitimately buy weapons but do it so they can then sell them to drug cartels or various other gangs, criminal gangs that couldn't have bought them otherwise. the police say closing this loophole does nothing to stop a legitimate gun owner from having a gun, but it cannot cut down on guns going to criminal syndicates. as one who served in law enforcement, i don't know why-in anyone would disagree with the police on this one. so if we're going to be able to close loopholes in the background check system and improve school safety with more resources, to include counselors and officers