This is one of many of my passions, please bear with me as I

[sheshe2]

7. Yes

Congressional Republicans headed by Eric Cantor are stalling on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The Senate has already passed a bill that increases protection for Native, LGBT and undocumented immigrant women.
It seems the latest sticking point is our Native sisters.

VAWA, which has been reauthorized consistently for 18 years with little fanfare, was, for the first time, left to expire in Sept. 2011. The sticking point has been new protections for three particularly vulnerable groups: undocumented immigrants, members of the LGBT community and Native Americans. The additions are supported by Democrats and opposed by House Republicans, who are calling them politipolitically driven. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill in April with the additional protections, and House Republicans passed their own bill in May that omitted those three provisions. Since then, the issue has gone nowhere...

But two sources familiar with negotiations on VAWA, both of whom requested anonymity given the sensitive nature of talks, have told HuffPost that Cantor is refusing to accept any added protections for Native American women that would give expanded jurisdiction to tribes, and is pressuring Democrats to concede on that front.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/9/1167923/-Hey-House-GOP-How-many-Native-women-will-be-raped-today

Yes sage, it will get worse under 45 and the GOP holding both Senate and House. You know that they will never fully support a reauthorization of VAWA as it stands.

For you, sage.