Delaware's Senator Ted Kaufman: Legislator of the Day
Bilerico Nov 06 09
Interesting doings yesterday at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which you can view here. I congratulate the Committee and witnesses on doing a wonderful job of addressing business and religious objections to the bill. We had 375 people stop into our Liveblog of the hearing.
In the cold light of an upstate New York morning, here's how I read the numbers on the hearing:
ZERO Trangender witnesses Republican Senators in attendance
ONE Gay witness Big IF ("Sen. Harkin:IF the leadership - Senator Reid - sees an opening, we'll move it. Full story...
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