Statement from Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco on the Introduction of the Violence Against Wo

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Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco issued the following statement today after the introduction of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in Congress:

“The Department of Justice applauds the introduction of legislation by a bipartisan group of Senators to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Last fall, I had the honor of testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the enormous impact that VAWA has had in combating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. As I told the Senate Judiciary Committee then, I know from my personal experience helping to research the original VAWA legislation in the 1990s that the new tools and resources from this reauthorization are critical to modernizing our efforts to prevent and end these crimes. The department urges Congress to swiftly pass this essential legislation.”

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1. *The bill was sponsored by Senator and future Vice President and President of the United States Joe

The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) was a United States federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355) signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress when prosecutors chose to not prosecute cases. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.

The bill was sponsored by Senator and future Vice President and President of the United States Joe Biden (D-DE).[1] in 1994 and gained support from a broad coalition of advocacy groups.[2] The Act passed through both houses of the Congress with bipartisan support in 1994, although the following year House Republicans attempted to cut the Act's funding.[3] In the 2000 Supreme Court case United States v. Morrison, a sharply divided Court struck down the VAWA provision allowing women the right to sue the accused in federal court. By a 5-4 majority, the Court overturned the provision as exceeding the federal government's powers under the Commerce Clause.[4][5]

VAWA was reauthorized by bipartisan majorities in Congress in 2000 and again in December 2005. The Act's 2012 renewal was opposed by conservative Republicans, who objected to extending the Act's protections to same-sex couples and to provisions allowing battered undocumented immigrants to claim temporary visas, but it was reauthorized in 2013, after a long legislative battle. As a result of the United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019, the Violence Against Women Act expired on December 21, 2018. It was temporarily reinstated via a short-term spending bill on January 25, 2019, but expired again on February 15, 2019. The House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing VAWA in April 2019 that includes new provisions protecting transgender victims and banning individuals convicted of domestic abuse from purchasing firearms.[6] In an attempt to reach a bipartisan agreement, Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) led months of negotiation talks that came to a halt in November 2019. Senator Joni Ernst has said she plans to introduce a new version of the bill and hopes it will pass in the U.S. Senate.[7]'

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