House GOP Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed By Senate Die Without A Vote

Laura Bassett and Jennifer Bendery write on Huffington Post: “Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate’s 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native American women.”