First news of the
hearing for me...
Here are the email addresses for Senate
judiciary committee member holding
VAWA reauthorization hearing tomorrow
morning. The witness list (link below,
labeled as tentative) is clearly limited
(5 people, apparently no men, from
the DV industry).
arlen_specter@specter.senate.gov
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov
senator@kennedy.senate.gov
senator@biden.senate.gov
senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov
senator@feinstein.senate.gov
senator@sessions.senate.gov
russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov
Orrrin Hatch - http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact
Mike DeWine – www.dewine.senate.gov
Lindsey Graham – www.lgraham.senate.gov/email/email.htm
John Cornyn – www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Jon Kyl – www.kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfmrpwm
Sam Brownback - http://brownback.senate.gov/CMEmailMe.cfm
Tom Coburn - http://coburn.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Schumer - http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm
Dick Durbin - http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm#contact
The list of witnesses, as of Monday
morn, is found at:
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1570
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From: Mike Franco <mv-franco@JUNO.COM>
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From: Kathi Kelly <kelly@space.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:45:09 -0400
Subject: vawa
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/2005/07/family-groups-criticize-one-sid...
July 15, 2005
Washington - The upcoming hearings
on the Violence Against Women Act
are drawing fire from a broad range
of groups who charge the July 19 hearings
may provide the Senate Judiciary Committee
members with incomplete and even biased
information about the proposed the
law.
Today those groups released a letter
to the Judiciary Committee, calling
for it to "receive testimony
from a diversity of witnesses, including
male victims of domestic violence,
women who can testify to the harm
VAWA has done to them and their families,
and researchers whose work is based
on scientific principles rather than
ideology."
The letter is signed by the American
Coalition for Fathers and Children
(ACFC), the Eagle Forum, American
Family Association, Coalitions for
America, Religious Freedom Coalition,
RADAR, Renew America, Population Research
Institute, and others.
A full-page advertisement in the current
Washington Times Weekly Edition also
targets the Senate hearings, saying
the hearings "only serve special
interest groups." The ad is sponsored
by the Colorado-based Equal Justice
Foundation.
"The Violence Against Women Act
is deceptive in its purported aims
and is destructive to American families,"
warns Stephen Baskerville, ACFC president.
"Well-intentioned lawmakers are
being misled about its purposes and
effects."
Women are also criticizing the proposed
VAWA legislation. In her June 29 article
Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy condemned
the discriminatory nature of VAWA:
"tax-funded domestic violence
shelters and services assist women
and routinely turn away men."
And in her July 1 column, Kathleen
Parker charged that VAWA has "demonized
men and made women into martyrs and
victims."
Last week RADAR, a group concerned
about domestic violence bias, released
a report that concludes, "VAWA
tramples on persons' basic human rights,
undermines the family, and makes a
mockery of fairness and justice."
RADAR calls on lawmakers to "make
sure VAWA helps all victims of domestic
violence."
Research shows that women are just
as likely as men to commit domestic
violence. "Family violence is
an important social problem,"
Baskerville notes, "but ignoring
male victims leaves half the problem
unsolved
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