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    Here's Who Voted Against the Violence Against Women Act

    By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    Not everyone in the House of Representatives wanted to pass the Senate's version of the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act — which the House succeeded in doing on Thursday afternoon. (The bill is now headed to President Obama, who has promised to sign it.)

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    After all, efforts to reauthorize the bill, which funds a bevy of programs designed to helps victims of violence, have languished for more than a year in the GOP-controlled House, whose members have either ignored or tinkered with Senate versions of the reauthorization bill, which provisions funding for the Act for the next five years. (Since expiring at the end of 2011, VAWA has survived on temporary funding.) It's a relief, certainly, but also an opportunity to recognize the Congressmen and -women who still didn't want to reauthorize an important bill that has always been reauthorized, without controversy, since being passed in 1994.

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    A total of 138 House members voted against reauthorizing the intact bill, including nine GOP Congressmen — Paul Broun, Scott Garrett, Louie Gohmert, Tim Huelskamp, Walter Jones, Steve King, Thomas Massie, Tom McClintock and Matt Salmon — who vowed on Wednesday to strike down any version of the bill — even the heavily amended version their colleagues tried to push through (unsuccessfully) before considering, and passing, the Senate's bill.

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    And yes, in case you were wondering: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor — the de facto leader and brain behind the post-2012 Republican Party — voted nay.

    Here's the full list:

    1. Aderholt
    2. Amash
    3. Bachmann
    4. Barton
    5. Bentivolio
    6. Bilirakis
    7. Bishop (UT)
    8. Black
    9. Blackburn
    10. Bonner
    11. Brady (TX)
    12. Bridenstine
    13. Brooks (AL)
    14. Broun (GA)
    15. Burgess
    16. Campbell
    17. Cantor
    18. Carter
    19. Cassidy
    20. Chabot
    21. Chaffetz
    22. Collins (GA)
    23. Conaway
    24. Cotton
    25. Crawford
    26. Culberson
    27. DeSantis
    28. DesJarlais
    29. Duncan (SC)
    30. Duncan (TN)
    31. Ellmers
    32. Fincher
    33. Fleischmann
    34. Fleming
    35. Flores
    36. Forbes
    37. Fortenberry
    38. Foxx
    39. Franks (AZ)
    40. Garrett
    41. Gingrey (GA)
    42. Gohmert
    43. Goodlatte
    44. Gosar
    45. Gowdy
    46. Graves (GA)
    47. Graves (MO)
    48. Griffin (AR)
    49. Griffith (VA)
    50. Guthrie
    51. Hall
    52. Harris
    53. Hartzler
    54. Hastings (WA)
    55. Hensarling
    56. Holding
    57. Hudson
    58. Huelskamp
    59. Huizenga (MI)
    60. Hultgren
    61. Hurt
    62. Johnson (OH)
    63. Jones
    64. Jordan
    65. Kelly
    66. King (IA)
    67. Kingston
    68. Labrador
    69. LaMalfa
    70. Lamborn
    71. Lankford
    72. Latta
    73. Long
    74. Lucas
    75. Luetkemeyer
    76. Lummis
    77. Marchant
    78. Marino
    79. Massie
    80. McCaul
    81. McClintock
    82. Meadows
    83. Mica
    84. Miller (FL)
    85. Mullin
    86. Mulvaney
    87. Murphy (PA)
    88. Neugebauer
    89. Noem
    90. Nunnelee
    91. Olson
    92. Palazzo
    93. Perry
    94. Petri
    95. Pittenger
    96. Pitts
    97. Pompeo
    98. Posey
    99. Price (GA)
    100. Radel
    101. Ribble
    102. Rice (SC)
    103. Roby
    104. Roe (TN)
    105. Rogers (AL)
    106. Rogers (KY)
    107. Rohrabacher
    108. Rooney
    109. Roskam
    110. Ross
    111. Rothfus
    112. Salmon
    113. Scalise
    114. Schweikert
    115. Scott, Austin
    116. Sensenbrenner
    117. Sessions
    118. Smith (NE)
    119. Smith (NJ)
    120. Smith (TX)
    121. Southerland
    122. Stewart
    123. Stockman
    124. Stutzman
    125. Thornberry
    126. Wagner
    127. Walberg
    128. Weber (TX)
    129. Wenstrup
    130. Westmoreland
    131. Whitfield
    132. Williams
    133. Wilson (SC)
    134. Wittman
    135. Wolf
    136. Womack
    137. Woodall
    138. Yoho

    And, for old time's sake, here's the list of Senators who voted against the Senate version of the bill in April of 2012:

     

    1. Barrasso (R-WY)
    2. Blunt (R-MO)
    3. Boozman (R-AR)
    4. Burr (R-NC)
    5. Chambliss (R-GA)
    6. Coburn (R-OK)
    7. Cochran (R-MS)
    8. Cornyn (R-TX)
    9. DeMint (R-SC)
    10. Enzi (R-WY)
    11. Graham (R-SC)
    12. Grassley (R-IA)
    13. Hatch (R-UT)
    14. Inhofe (R-OK)
    15. Isakson (R-GA)
    16. Johanns (R-NE)
    17. Johnson (R-WI)
    18. Kyl (R-AZ)
    19. Lee (R-UT)
    20. Lugar (R-IN)
    21. McConnell (R-KY)
    22. Moran (R-KS)
    23. Paul (R-KY)
    24. Risch (R-ID)
    25. Roberts (R-KS)
    26. Rubio (R-FL)
    27. Sessions (R-AL)
    28. Shelby (R-AL)
    29. Thune (R-SD)
    30. Toomey (R-PA)
    31. Wicker (R-MS)
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