Bipartisan lawmakers announce compromise on Violence Against Women Act – By Daniel Uria (UPI) / February 9, 2022
Feb. 9 (UPI) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday announced an agreement on legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act that removes a key provision related to gun ownership.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Lisa Murkowski, R-Ala., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, announced the legislation that will “reauthorize and strengthen” the law for the first time in nearly a decade.
Feinstein said the bill “preserves the good work of the last reauthorization bill in 2013” and will strengthen “existing programs to support survivors and to prevent and to respond to domestic violence, and that’s dating violence and sexual assault and stalking.”
