Under plans in the bill only domestic violence victims who can prove "a high risk of violence" will qualify for assistance.
America's state governors launched a bipartisan effort to remove a provision in a congressional bill that would give the presidency more power in domestic crises over the National Guard , which traces its history back to the colonial militias.
Both of those parts of the bill, the no timetable and the increased domestic spending, will be in the House bill and the Senate will vote on it probably Thursday night or Friday.
However the minister said the definition of domestic abuse in the bill was too wide, but he assured Ms Grant that he, and the Lord Advocate would work with her until a workable definition was reached.
She warned that the definition of domestic violence proposed in the bill was "too narrow" and could mean victims would be left without support.
Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing vowed to work with Rhoda Grant to improve her bill, in the interests of protecting victims of domestic abuse.
Unfortunately for Mr Wilkins, others in his party have been less apologetic notably John Graham Altman, an assemblyman from Charleston who was instrumental in squashing the original domestic-violence bill.
Republicans were unhappy about the additional domestic spending included in the House bill, but many said they were relieved the final measure did not set a timetable for troop withdrawal.
The Leahy-Crapo VAWA reauthorization bill addresses many pressing issues facing all victims of domestic violence, including those in Indian Country.
After the Republicans won control of the Congress in 1994, then president Bill Clinton was hard-pressed to advance his domestic agenda.
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President Bush said he was successful in cutting billions in domestic spending from the measure, but he acknowledged that the bill still includes more money for additional programs than he would have liked.
Ms Grant said domestic abuse in Scotland cost 2.3bn per annum and the cost of her bill would be a fraction of that.
Then the spill in the Gulf of Mexico fouled the waters: one of the bill's key elements is an expansion of domestic offshore oil exploration.
The bill contains other less controversial clauses on domestic violence, gangs, cowboy wheel clampers, unauthorised possession of mobile phones in prisons, compensating UK victims of overseas terrorism, controls on air weapons and restrictions on all-night drinking.
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