{"id":242915,"date":"2013-03-01T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242915"},"modified":"2013-03-01T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:10:55","slug":"gohmert-votes-against-violence-against-women-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242915","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Votes Against Violence Against Women Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=242770\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-242770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/thumb_louie-gohmert-3.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_louie-gohmert-3\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-242770\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler has voted against the Violence Against Women Act, and he\u2019s explaining why. In a statement, Gohmert says, \u201cIt is never acceptable to carry out acts of violence against women \u2013 or anyone for that matter. It violates existing laws in every U.S. state and territory. We should always defend and protect women from abuse and mistreatment. I have prosecuted and, later as a judge, personally sentenced violent abusers to prison for such heinous crimes. Violence against women is a critically important issue to me, and I also personally know the laws in our state of Texas protect women. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Violence Against Women Act was previously struck down by the Supreme Court for violating the Constitution and intruding on each State\u2019s jurisdiction. This new Senate bill was seriously flawed also having Constitutional violations again. It will eventually be struck down. The bill also gave away far more money than even the President had requested. The House bill was better but still had very serious Constitutional flaws. Even though the name of the bill appealed to me on a very strong emotional basis, I still could not in good conscience vote for a bill that will again be found to violate the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso the Speaker of the House had promised to return to regular order in the House so that bills would have legislative hearings, have wide open debate and have an open amendment process to provide complete transparency. That process more than likely would have provided a bill I could have voted for, but this bill was secretly negotiated and rushed to the floor for a vote. Additionally, granting Indian tribes special domestic violence jurisdiction over non-native Americans is blatantly violative of the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know some of the groups helping battered women do wonderful, healing, helpful work. However, there is inadequate supervision of the money spent by the federal government in these matters causing some women\u2019s advocacy groups, such as Eagle Forum, to state that this Act has a \u2018billion-dollar-a-year price tag\u2019 that is \u2018spent by the radical feminists to pursue their ideology and goals.\u2019 Shielding women from physical and mental abuse is of the utmost importance. However, this bill was not the answer while violating the Constitution.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler has voted against the Violence Against Women Act, and he\u2019s explaining why. In a statement, Gohmert says, \u201cIt is never acceptable to carry out acts of violence against women \u2013 or anyone for that matter. It violates existing laws in every U.S. state and territory. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Votes Against Violence Against Women Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 15:27:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243012,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242915\/revisions\/243012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}