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Clinton calls for renewal of domestic violence law by Anne bearan Associated Press Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — Family vio lence is still a national tragedy that ruins lives and futures, President Clinton said Monday as he pressed Congress to renew a law intended to combat domestic abuse. “Domestic violence is not just a family problem that neighbors can ignore, not just a women’s problem that men can turn away from,” Clinton said. “It is America’s prob lem.” The landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act is due to ex pire Sept. 30. Legislation to reau thorize the law for another six years has broad bipartisan support, but it is held up in the last-minute crush of bills as Congress tries to meet an Oct. 6 adjournment date. “It is wrong to delay this one more hour,” Clinton told an audi ence that included many women who were victims of family abuse. “Schedule the vote.” The president said the bill is be ing “used as a political football in Washington,” as both parties jock ey for advantage in the final days of the session. Republicans hold ma jorities in both houses, and general ly control which bills come up when. John Feehery, a spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R 111., said the measure has been un der consideration in congressional committees, but that a vote was ex pected. “It possibly might be sched uled for a vote for later this week.” In the Senate, Republican leaders floated the idea Monday of attach ing the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act to a bill that would overhaul the nation’s bank ruptcy laws. The twinned propos als would then be appended to one of the 11 appropriations bills that Congress still must enact to keep the government in operation, under a last-ditch GOP plan circulated Monday. Joan Entmacher, vice president of the liberal National Women’s Law Center, described the idea as extor tion. Women’s groups fiercely sup port renewal of the act, but many of the same groups oppose the bank ruptcy legislation because they contend it disproportionately harms women and children. If the law is extended, it will be without a key provision allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court. The Supreme Court said it is up to states, not Con gress, to choose whether to protect women in that way. Congressional Democrats tried unsuccessfully to reinstate the pro vision this year. As left by the Supreme Court, the law now essentially provides a fed eral dispensary for a variety of grants and programs aimed at pre venting family violence and help ing women flee it. So far, the federal government has spent $1.6 billion under the law, including $173 million being distributed this year. Clinton was announcing New Mexico’s last batch of $1.7 million on Monday, money the White House said will go to partly to strengthen domestic violence enforcement and prosecu tion efforts on American Indian lands. Later in the day, Clinton spoke at a reception that raised at least $150,000 for the New Mexico Coor dinated Campaign in Santa Fe. 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