House Committee Approves Bill Granting Partner Benefits To Federal Employees

Yesterday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-12 to approve Rep. Tammy Baldwin's bill granting benefits for the partners of federal employees.
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Marriage equality watch/wait goes on in NY and NJ

Advocates in New York remain confident that the highly dysfunctional state senate there will vote this year on a marriage equality bill that has, so far, been kept from a floor vote, WNYC reports.
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House health care vote expected on Saturday

Reuters: Urged on by President Barack Obama, Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives hustled on Thursday to round up support for a sweeping healthcare overhaul headed to a close floor vote on Saturday.
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Gay Marriage Introduced in DC: But What Will Congress Do?

The long awaited Gay marriage bill has been introduced in Washington DC's legislative body. It is expected to pass on the local level and (up to now) most people have thought the Democratically controlled Congress would be loath to overturn it.
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'Inside the Mind of Mark Foley' radio show debuts tonight

You too can land a radio show gig by sending pervy IMs to young men who are serving their country as Congressional Pages.
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Ohio House Passes Gay Housing, Job Rights Bill

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Largely along party lines, the Ohio House has passed a gay rights bill that took years to make it to a floor vote.
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Ohio House Passes Gay Housing, Job Rights Bill

Largely along party lines, the Ohio House has passed a gay rights bill that took years to make it to a floor vote.
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Obama blasts Dems in Congress for wanting to censure Joe "You Lie!" Wilson

Politico: Even as Democrats on Capitol Hill call for a rebuke of Rep. Joe Wilson for his outburst last week at the president’s address, Barack Obama downplayed the need for a further censure of the South Carolina Republican, saying the whole thing is becoming a “big circus.
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Employment Discrimination Up for Vote in Ohio

The state of Ohio’s legislature is gearing up to vote on a proposal that would prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Blue Dog Rep., who claimed "victory" for preventing vote on health reform bill, wants liberals to stop being mean

Remember Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin? She's the Blue Dog who trumpted the fact that her little gang of conservatives had thwarted the movement on health insurance reform in July: Check out this statement from Blue Dog Stephanie Herseth Sandlin: Herseth Sandlin also made it clear that she believes the Blue Dogs have scored a major victory by getting leaders to back away from their goal of having the House vote on a healthcare bill before members return home for the month of August.
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On Health Care: Obama adopts "more modest approach" and single-payer will get a House vote

There's an interesting juxtaposition here. First, according to the Washington Post, Team Obama is rethinking its strategy for selling health insurance reform (and they should): Now, as lawmakers begin to flee Washington for a month-long recess, the White House team is retooling its message and strategy, hoping a more modest approach will reinvigorate Obama's signature domestic policy initiative and give him a first-year victory for Democrats to carry into the 2010 midterm elections.
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Baucus isn't sure how he'll vote on Sotomayor

In case we needed more reasons to loathe Max Baucus, he hasn't decided what to do on Sotomayor's confirmation.
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“It is because of the Blue Dog Coalition that there is no floor vote before the August break.”

The Blue Dogs have blocked a vote on health insurance reform before the August recess -- and they think it's a big win: Blue Dogs and House leaders have struck a deal to guarantee that the House will not vote on a healthcare bill before August, a leading Blue Dog said on Wednesday.
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Sotomayor's nomination approved by Senate Judiciary Committee

Sotomayor's confirmation will be heading to the full Senate for a floor vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee just approved the nomination by a vote of 13 - 6.
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Where is the Senate on ENDA?

It's close. But we can do it.

As I am sure you remember from Schoolhouse Rock, it's hard to make a Bill into a Law.
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Gay marriage stalls as RI lawmakers wrap up

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island seems almost certain to remain the only New England state that does not recognize gay marriage after measures legalizing same-sex unions stalled just before the part-time General Assembly ended the bulk of its annual work.
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Notes: New senate president in New York says he wants vote on marriage bill

In the latest twist in a bizarre political storm that hit the New York state house in Albany yesterday, the senate’s newly installed president and primary power-broker, Sen.
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Breaking – GOP appears to have regained control of NY senate, dooming marriage equality vote

New York Daily News political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin calls the situation in Albany today “a mess” amid claims and counter-claims that the state’s Republican Party has taken control of the chamber and dumped erstwhile majority leader, Sen.
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More Rhode Island Nonsense: Infertility Treatments Require A Wedding Ring

Gah. And the bill won't be reintroduced until Carcieri leaves office in 2011...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.
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Rhode Island: No Equal Marriage, But Possible Funeral Rights

How big of them.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Gay men and women in Rhode Island would have the legal right to make funeral arrangements for their partners under a bill unanimously backed by the state Senate.
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