Why is the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act so unpopular with the Tea party ?

[Eaglewings]

Let's take a look at who voted NAY on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act aka response to domestic violence, sex dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Scott (R-SC), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Paul (R-KY), Nay

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Often times bills have amendments attached that turn good bills into crappy compromises. Wouldn't judge the voting records by the title or primary intent of a bill without knowing what amendments got stuck onto it.

 

[peach174]

They have the right to vote against the bill that contains illegal immigrants getting temporary visas.

 

[Disir]

For some it's federal overreach.

And this:
ACCOUNTABILITY
S. 1925 contains some measures to enhance accountability for grantees but more is needed. The Department of Justice Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of 22 individual VAWA grantees from 1998 to 2010. Of these 22 randomly selected grantees audited by the OIG, 21 were found to have some form of violation of grant requirements ranging from unauthorized and unallowable expenditures, to sloppy recordkeeping and failure to report in a timely manner.

In 2010, one grantee was found by the Inspector General to have questionable costs for 93% of the nearly $900,000 they received from the Department of Justice. A 2009 audit found that nearly $500,000 of a $680,000 grant was questionable. These randomly selected audits raise serious questions about how the VAWA grantee is utilizing federal funds and whether the program is realizing its true potential given the significant amounts of funds that the OIG found were not expended on serving victims. Any dollar that is lost to fraud, waste, or abuse of programmatic requirements is a dollar that is not serving victims. We believe that those found to have abused program requirements should not continue to receive federal funds until they can prove that they have reformed their errant ways. Given the current fiscal environment and ballooning national debt, the American taxpayers deserve a baseline of accountability from those who have the privilege of receiving federal taxpayer funds.
Committee Reports - 112th Congress 2011-2012 - Senate Report 112-153


Of course that isn't how they sell it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Read the bill, they are not voting against what you think they are voting against.

 

[Disir]

They have the right to vote against the bill that contains illegal immigrants getting temporary visas.

Only since 1994. Graham never gave a damn.

 

[Eaglewings]

Angers me what they did to a possible great bill to protect against violence, they poison it by throwing in other things that don't even apply. Assholes....

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

It's just feel good bullshit..... it doesn't actually do anything.

 

[Disir]

It's just feel good bullshit..... it doesn't actually do anything.

Funds shelters and rape crisis. Once we start moving into mandatory arrests and mismanagement of funds we see a bunch of bs.