{"id":4226,"date":"2008-03-14T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/14\/violence-against-women-act-call-congress-today\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:08:04","slug":"violence-against-women-act-call-congress-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"Violence Against Women Act &#8212; Call Congress Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my inbox:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Whoo Hoo!&nbsp; We did it!!&nbsp; BIG VICTORY in the Senate yesterday.&nbsp; Last night, just before 9 pm, the Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY to approve restoring $100 million for the Violence Against Women Act into the Senate&#8217;s budget<br \/>\nproposal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to everyone for your HUGE response to yesterday&#8217;s action alert.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll have to keep on top of this as the appropriations process gets underway &#8211; but we&#8217;re<br \/>\noff to a great start!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">NOW- we&#8217;ve got an important deadline in the House of Representatives!&nbsp; Today is the last day for your representatives to sign on to the &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter urging full funding for&nbsp; VAWA.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s keep our momentum going!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">ACT NOW!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Use our easy to use tools to <b><font color=\"#cc0066\"><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/sfvo\/utr\/1\/MAIQIFFKPU\/LVQLIFFKSK\/1816065341\" target=\"_blank\">CALL your Representative<\/a><\/font><\/b>&nbsp; and ask them to sign on!!&nbsp; <br \/>\nI<\/font><font face=\"Arial\">t&#8217;s easy!&nbsp; We provide their name, phone number, a script and a feedback form.&nbsp; You&nbsp; provide the commitment to making a difference :)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">and\/or&nbsp; <\/font><font face=\"Arial\"><b><font color=\"#cc0066\"><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/sfvo\/utr\/1\/MAIQIFFKPU\/BDSYIFFKSL\/1816065341\" target=\"_blank\">SEND an email<\/a><\/font><\/b> today!! <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Your <b><font color=\"#cc0066\"><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/sfvo\/utr\/1\/MAIQIFFKPU\/JRVCIFFKSM\/1816065341\" target=\"_blank\">CALL<\/a><\/font><\/b> is especially important since today&#8217;s the deadline. Please <b><font color=\"#cc0066\"><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/sfvo\/utr\/1\/MAIQIFFKPU\/MXXOIFFKSN\/1816065341\" target=\"_blank\">CALL<\/a><\/font><\/b> if you can!!<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my inbox: Whoo Hoo!&nbsp; We did it!!&nbsp; BIG VICTORY in the Senate yesterday.&nbsp; Last night, just before 9 pm, the Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY to approve restoring $100 million for the Violence Against Women Act into the Senate&#8217;s budget proposal.&nbsp;&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}