SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - While lawmakers were scrambling to keep Americans from falling off the fiscal cliff a historic measure went by the wayside. The 112th congress wrapped up without re-authorizing the Violence Against Women Act. This is the first time that's happened since 1994.

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