Biden targets GOP over Violence Against Women Act

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Biden thumps GOP over Violence Against Women Act
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/04/biden-thumps-gop-over-violence-against-women-act/

Vice President Joe Biden targeted House Republicans on Friday in the fight to renew the normally-bipartisan Violence Against Woman Act.

Speaking at the Young Women's Christian Association conference in Washington, Biden accused the GOP of "scheming" in its opposition to the bill, trying to find a way to cut down the law without losing points with women voters.

"The other team, the other boy, other folks in Congress. This is not your father's Republican Party," Biden said to about 400 women in the audience. "The other team is taking on virtually every one of the initiatives you and I fought so hard to establish."

Biden initially co-authored the bill as a senator before it became law in 1994. The most recent version up for reauthorization expands the law's funding and protections for same-sex couples, immigrants and tribal communities.

Biden: This is not your father's GOP
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/225545-biden-this-is-not-your-fathers-gop
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Biden recalled a recent visit to the headquarters of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, a service created in 1996 as part of the Violence Against Women Act. He asked the operator at the hotline, which he said receives 23,000 calls per month, to turn up the volume on one of the calls.

"A young women was on the phone saying, 'I'm calling — oh my God, I see him, oh my God, he's coming. I'm standing between the Radio Shack and the Gap and I'm in — oh, my please, oh God,' " Biden said.

"That's the reality," he added.