U.S. Senate to vote today on VAWA--still time to ask your Senators to VOTE YES on VAWA, without harmful amendments * Missour's Senators

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on S.47 today, the bill to reauthorize
the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Debate is liely to begin this
afternoon.


If you have ot already made calls to Missouri's Senators, below is
information from the National Network to End Domestic Violence that
provides details on how you can quickly connect with them to urge passage
of VAWA reauthorization—call the toll-free U.S. Capitol switchboard and you
will be connected.


·Missouri Senator Roy Blunt needs to hear from advocates in Missouri that
we need his vote in support of S.47 without amendments.





·Missouri's Senator Claire McCaskill is a co-sponsor of S.47, so calls to
her office are Thank You calls





Also below is a link to C-Span2 if you are interested to watch and listen
to the U.S. Senate debate on VAWA this afternoon.












Ask your Senators to VOTE YES on VAWA, without
harmful amendments




UPDATE: The Senate vote on VAWA was postponed until
TODAY, Monday, February 11.  You still have time to
call your Senators!





S. 47 now has 62 co-sponsors – due in large part to
all of your calls!  This should guarantee VAWA's
passage in the Senate.  However, there is a
possibility that amendments could be introduced that
could slow down forward movement on the bill.  Please
call your Senators TODAY and urge them to vote yes on
S. 47, without harmful amendments!





Call the Capitol switchboard at 888.269.5702 and ask
the operator to connect you to your Senators.  If you
don't know who your Senators are, you can look them
up here.  When you're connected to their offices,
tell the person who answers the phone:





1)            I am a constituent from (city and
state) and my name is _________.


2)            I urge Senator____ to vote yes on S.
47, a strong, bipartisan bill that would reauthorize
the


Violence Against Women Act – and to oppose any
harmful amendments that are introduced.


3)            Thank you and I look forward to hearing
that the Senator has voted for VAWA.





You can also watch the vote unfold live on CSPAN at
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/








We are optimistic that a strong bill will be passed
out of the Senate – and then we can turn our
attention to the House and to getting a final VAWA
that safely and effectively protects all victims!





Thanks for all that you do!