re: #31 Lidane

You know, because protecting victims of abuse that are LGBT, undocumented or who live on Native American land is so controversial.

Grassley whined:

“All these things add up to things that are keeping a bill that could pass on a voice vote from being passed,” Grassley said. “Violence against women except for these additions is noncontroversial. I’m afraid what they’re doing here is they want a political issue — you know, ‘war on women’ — and they are going to end up with another one-year extension.”

They were almost set to block it.