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
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 of representatives, only straight are women, about 18% of the house. house republicans are reaching out with this new young guns women up group to a constituency that makes up more than half the general population but less than 20% of the elected members of the house. maybe they see this math problem they re in with women and want to try to fix it. the young guns program has a record on spouting women candidates for office. they have a whole list of candidates they re backing this election cycle on their website. here has the math part. supporting 94 republican candidates this year. supporting 14 women. only about 15% of the candidates the young guns are supporting this year are women.
to take a you turn from their previous position and deciding now to not block the reauthorizationization 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.
investigation into sexual harassment claims. at number eight, a false idol named aqua buddha. why tie a woman up, tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his god was aqua buddha? yes, that ad made the phrase aqua buddha into an issue in the senate race. conway questioned the faith of his republican opponent rand paul. to no avail. paul won the november race. number seven, another campaign ad, this one featuring a flock of demon sheep. the ad came out in the primary campaign for california s republican senate nominee. the campaign of former hewlett-packard ceo fiorino showed the opponent as a dangerous predator with glowing red eyes. strategists questioned the strategy. she won the nomination and lost
reporter: many economists agree that a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs will never return, lost to overseas competition and technology. the best defense against that is education and training and high-tech skills. if some see that as femme myization of tough blue collar guys, jon, it might be time to woman up. jon: ooh. i don t like the sound of that. [laughter] doug, thanks very much. doug mcelway in washington. -and-a-half i think we just coined a new term. woman up, jon. another big story today, a war on the web. hackers retaliating for action against wikileaks and its founder. they re launching cyber attacks shutting down government and company web sites around the world. can they actually be stopped? we re going to talk to an internet security expert next.