smaller pieces of it. as that debate goes on, we are seeing a new push for some bipartisan measures. let s get to our congressional correspondent lauren fox. bipartisanship, what a novel idea. especially nine months before the midterms, john. democrats changing their focus here from build back better to what can they accomplish in the next several weeks and months ahead of this midterm. and already this week you saw a lot of action. first on the floor they passed the force arbitration bill that would revolutionize the way companies can handle sexual assault allegations within their workplaces. also an effort under way this week they introduced the violence against women s act. that comes after three years of negotiations. this bill expired three years ago, john. so it shows you what a monumental moment that was for members of both the republican and democratic party. you also have efforts to reform the post office, potentially passing in the senate next week. that already passed the
Pennsylvania could soon receive $25 million in federal funding to keep children safe through the passage of Senate Bill 78, also known as Kayden’s Law.
that is hopeful news. i m grateful to have lived in an era where the numbers have increased dramatically. they re still not to your party and they re still troubled, difficulty as i talk about in the book. getting legislation that is specifically related to gender equity. we have violence against women s act that has been languishing in committee for some time noi and maybe over a year. i think it was over a year. we have not responded. if you look at the numbers that i talk about, if you look at the pervasiveness of this problem, in ten million individuals will be victims of intimate partner violence. if you look at the problems happening in our school, it s grossly undercounted.
one of the biggest reasons that the senate and mitch mcconnell and john cornyn and ted cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the house and getting the violence against women s act is because the nra doesn t like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. and who killed our sergeant? a boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. reporter: at issue, a provision known as the boyfriend loophole which would prohibit dating partner convicted of domestic violence from p possessing firearms. i regret he took the occasion the sad occasion of the officer s murder to try to
pumpkins for your next cookbook you are okay. steve: pumpkin tax in new jersey? ainsley: yeah, the pumpkin police are coming after you if you put one on your porch. steve: great. mine is plank. thanplask.plastic, ainsley: i m going to say something that is probably going to offend some people here. i m the only one on the stage ha has gotten anything really big done from the violence against women s act. making sure we passed affordable care ability. steve: he is the only one who has gotten anything really big done. can democratic voters name any of his accomplishments? campus reform went to find out. what do you view as joe biden s singular like accomplishment you would points to. i don t know of a specific accomplishment. to be honest with you, i am drawing a blank on what he accomplished. no. anything? no. i don t know.