WASHINGTON -- Rarely does House Speaker John Boehner draw high praise from Democrats, but Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) thinks the Ohio Republican deserves credit for bringing major bills to the floor despite opposition from members of his caucus.
"I think that we should look at it positively that Speaker Boehner was willing to call something up for a vote that members of his own party opposed, because it was for the good of the nation, and he knew that there were votes to pass it," Duckworth said in an interview Thursday with The Huffington Post.
The freshman congresswoman was reacting to the House passage of the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday, which followed a drawn-out fight over expanding protections to Native American, LGBT and immigrant victims of abuse.
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