Congress must pass VAWA in order for funding to be maintained. Casey supporting the Act.
Last year, 530 adults were turned away from a shelter in Bucks and Montgomery counties due to lack of room, said a report on PhillyBurbs.com. "Should Congress fail to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which pays for programs that help victims of domestic violence, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said it would encourage 'a terrible, horrific betrayal of who we are as a people' and make it more difficult to help victims," said the article. VAWA, according to WhiteHouse.gov's fact sheet, is credited with decreasing domestic violence against women by 67 percent from 1993 to 2010. The fact sheet calls the Act a "landmark federal legislation’s comprehensive approach to violence against women combined tough new provisions to hold …
Conshohocken Mayor Robert Frost spoke out against a house and senate bill that would increase truck weight on roads at the borough council's meeting on Monday.
The Conshohocken Borough Council supported a statement by mayor Robert Frost speaking out against proposed House and Senate legislation that would increase the gross weight allowed by trucks on the interstate roadway system at its meeting on Monday. Reading from a letter that the mayor’s office plans to send to Senators Robert Casey and Patrick Toomey, Frost said that he has “serous concerns regarding larger trucks and the impact they would have on our borough.” “Our location is close proximity to I-76, I-476 and I-276,” he said. “[We] already experience a much higher than average truck volume and the infrastructure damage that comes with it. Legislation that increases the rate of deterioration should be avoided.” Under H.R. 763 in the …
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Melissa Treacy
2:54 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thank you to our readers. State Rep. Brendan Boyle has also sponsored a resolution in the State House calling on Congress to reauthorize the VAWA. For more read his post here: http://www.pahouse.com/boyle/PAHouseNews.asp?doc=28782 more ›