Congress has renewed a 1990s-era law that extends protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence, updating the landmark Violence Against Women Act nearly three years after partisan disagreements caused it to lapse.
Congress has renewed a 1990s-era law that extends protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence, updating the landmark Violence Against Women Act.
Passage of the legislation brought a rare moment of bipartisan agreement in the House and Senate, achieved partly on the strength of the personal connections that lawmakers have to domestic violence and its devastating effects.