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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Thu Mar 6, 2014, 12:13 AM Mar 2014

It’s a BFD: Joe Biden and Eric Holder Challenge Republicans To Fund Rape Kit Testing

It’s a BFD: Joe Biden and Eric Holder Challenge Republicans To Fund Rape Kit Testing

In a press conference call Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder pushed funding for reducing the backlog of untested rape kits and assisting prosecution of sexual assault cases, as called for in the President’s 2015 Budget.

AG Holder acknowledged the Vice President’s long commitment to ending violence against women, calling him “a strong steadfast leader” “who had made a singular contribution” in the fight to end violence against women.

Holder said that the budget reflected the values of the entire Obama administration, “funding levels in Obama’s budget reflect the values of Obama administration, V.P. Biden, and this DOJ.”

Vice President Biden started off by explaining that when he was working on getting the first Violence Against Women Act passed, they didn’t realize how many rape kits were not being tested. But specifically after the introduction of DNA evidence, “All of the sudden if we could test these rape kits, we could solve a whole hell of a lot of crimes.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/05/its-bfd-vp-joe-biden-pushes-address-backlog-untested-rape-kits.html

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It’s a BFD: Joe Biden and Eric Holder Challenge Republicans To Fund Rape Kit Testing (Original Post) Tx4obama Mar 2014 OP

Republicans, why is there any opposition? Sunlei Mar 2014 #1

Sunlei

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1. Republicans, why is there any opposition?

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Thu Mar 6, 2014, 01:10 PM

Mar 2014

The Vice President asked why Republicans would oppose this when he doesn’t believe that they oppose testing rape kits, “Why is there any opposition? I believe that Republicans want to solve rape cases as do Democrats, so why is there opposition?”

"It’s sad that the Republican Party has become so mired in their war on women in order to hook into the resentment of their straggling base of older white men that they have spent the last few years engaged in a policy war on women, including taking a year to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, trying to label female victims “accusers” and granting more rights to rapists over any baby that is conceived in the commission of a crime. We’d certainly like to believe that Republicans want rape kits tested as much as Democrats do, but since they tried to defund the VAWA, that may be a hopelessly romantic view of the party as it used to be."

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