reauthorization of the violence against women act in the senate. it looked for weeks like it was poised to become a big partisan political battle when it passed out of committee on a party line vote with zero republican support and ultimately the republicans caved. it passed on a 68-31 vote and 15 republicans voting yes. there is more. the now women friendly republican party not blocking the violence against women act, they're creating a brand new republican group just for ladies. a group of house republicans created a caucus in 2007 called the young guns program, a group designed to help and support young awesome republicans like themselves. today, the young guns announced a new program, a young guns program for republican women called yg woman up. it's supposed to be like saying man-up but saying it for a woman. woman-up. of the 435 members of the house