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    Mar 17, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  1. Ben Cardin: Domestic violence still an important issue

    March is Women’s History Month, a time we usually celebrate or honor a specific woman in history. This year, I would like to do something different. I would like to focus on domestic violence, an issue that has received a lot of attention in...

    Tags: U.S. Senate, Sex Crimes, Benjamin L. Cardin, Abusive Behavior, Domestic Violence

    2. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  2. Rockefeller meeting puts face on domestic violence issue

    Patricia Greenlee never thought she would be a victim of domestic violence.
    matthewu@herald-mail.com
    Patricia Greenlee never thought she would be a victim of domestic violence. She never witnessed a domestic violence in her life. Her parents had been married for 52 years, and she and her four siblings all were college educated. “I always...

    Tags: Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate, John D. Rockefeller IV, Joe Manchin III, Politics

    3. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  3. Dent one of three House GOP lawmakers to support Employment Non-Discrimination Act

    For the second time in less than six months, just three House Republicans signed their names to gay rights legislation. And one of them is again Lehigh Valley Rep. Charlie Dent.
    Call Washington Bureau
    For the second time in less than six months, just three House Republicans signed their names to gay rights legislation. And one of them is again Lehigh Valley Rep. Charlie Dent. Dent added his name Thursday to a bill making it illegal to discriminate...

    Tags: Labor Legislation, Employment, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

    4. Apr 22, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  4. One to watch from Michigan

    WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism. Justin Amash, 33, may seek the Senate seat being vacated by six-term Democrat Carl Levin, who was elected in 1978, two years before Amash was born.
    WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....

    Tags: Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Christianity

    5. Apr 15, 2013 |Story| Daily American

  5. New equipment will assist forensic rape exams

    Victim's Services Inc. and the Somerset County District Attorney's office have provided Somerset Hospital with equipment purchased through the Violence Against Women Act.
    Daily American Staff Writer, @daalyssac
    Victim's Services Inc. and the Somerset County District Attorney's office have provided Somerset Hospital with equipment purchased through the Violence Against Women Act. The equipment — consisting of a camera, a Wood's lamp and a carrying bag...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Sexual Assault, Assault

    6. Apr 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Hillary Clinton returns to public stage as 2016 watch begins

    — Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to the public stage Tuesday night for the opening scene in what many expect to be a carefully plotted performance concluding with another presidential try. The high-profile venue: the Kennedy Center in the nation'...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

    7. Mar 26, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. Put blame for domestic homicides where it belongs: on the killers

    Those of us who appear regularly in the North Avenue courthouse, where Baltimore City's domestic violence cases are heard, were already aware of the "spike" in domestic violence homicides noted recently by The Sun. We knew that some of those women had asked for the legal system's protection, and that some had not received it. But some of us also knew that even if they had gotten protective orders, or pressed charges, or participated in prosecution, those actions might not have saved their lives.
    Those of us who appear regularly in the North Avenue courthouse, where Baltimore City's domestic violence cases are heard, were already aware of the "spike" in domestic violence homicides noted recently by The Sun. We knew that some of those women had...

    Tags: Justice System, University of Baltimore, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior

    8. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Biden unveils domestic violence grants in Rockville

    The U.S. Justice Department will award $2.3 million in grants to a dozen local governments across the country in an effort to reduce domestic violence homicides, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., announced Wednesday at an...

    Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Montgomery County (Maryland), Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

    9. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  9. LETTER: Noem, Thune made right move with Violence Against Women Act

    Kudos to Rep. Kristi Noem and Sen. John Thune for opposing the Violence Against Women Act. Make no mistake: Decent people are outraged at the abuse of women, but VAWA is more about building feminist power structures than about protecting vulnerable women....

    Tags: Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice, Kristi Noem, John Thune, U.S. Congress

    10. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Obama signs Violence Against Women Act

    <span class="runtimeTopic">WASHINGTON</span> -- President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday the Violence Against Women Act, formally ending a battle fought in Congress in the last year over controversial changes to the act.
    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday the Violence Against Women Act, formally ending a battle fought in Congress in the last year over controversial changes to the act. In a public ceremony in Washington, Obama said this year&...

    Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Abusive Behavior

    11. Mar 4, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  11. Asking why Rep. Harris opposed domestic violence act

    Andy Harris, the only Maryland Republican serving in Congress, voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act last week, but he didn't call and tell me that.
    Andy Harris, the only Maryland Republican serving in Congress, voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act last week, but he didn't call and tell me that. Word of Harris' vote came from the Democratic Party — specifically, a...

    Tags: Republican Party, Cathy McMorris, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior

    12. Mar 3, 2013 |Story| Daily American

  12. Reducing violence

    Congress was correct when it voted on Thursday to reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act. House Republicans had tried to limit the bill before last November's election because the law extends domestic violence protections to gays,...

    Tags: Justice System, Barack Obama, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior

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