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Election 2022Chuck Schumer will force Republicans to vote on same-sex marriage before midterm elections
Schumer’s plan could help turn scores of voters against anti-gay Republicans in November.
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Election 2022Schumer slow-walks marriage equality vote before midterms
Political momentum will be a determining factor in Senate leader Chuck Schumer’s calculations about whether to bring the Marriage Equality Act up for a vote.
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PoliticsGOP senator announces opposition to same-sex marriage bill because taxes
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) is worried that groups that oppose same-sex marriage “will be challenged on their tax policy and will immediately become a target of this federal government.”
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PoliticsAbortion rights bill fails in Senate as every LGBTQ member of Congress supported it
Out Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has often opposed Democrats’ major initiatives. But not this one.
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Politics
Kyrsten Sinema’s fashion is getting defended by her fellow women Senators
The New York Times published four articles about the bisexual Senator’s attire. Senators say it is “unfairly sexist,” while the woman behind some of the articles stands behind them.
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PoliticsSenate confirms Beth Robinson, the first out lesbian U.S. circuit court judge
Republicans opposed her appointment, grilling her in a hearing with questions like “How many biological sexes do you believe there are?”
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CommentaryHow much more will it take for Democrats to recognize that bipartisanship is dead?
The trap that Democrats keep falling into is thinking of the Republican Party as a normal political entity. It is not.
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Election 2022Lisa Murkowski’s GOP primary challenger is an anti-LGBTQ zealot opposed to medicine & vampires
She believes people can pray away their gay and pharmaceutical drugs are a product of witchcraft.
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PoliticsRepublicans argued the Equality Act hurts women & then voted against women’s rights bills
House Republicans didn’t seem to get the memo that the GOP is now the party of women’s liberation when they voted against the ERA and the VAWA.
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PoliticsGOP Senators tried to add a trans girls sports ban to the COVID bill. It nearly passed.
Senators expressed outrage that a former football coach-turned-senator even introduced the amendment. Voting still came nearly down party lines, and one non-vote made the difference.
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CommentaryWill enough Republican senators sign onto the Equality Act for it to pass? Probably not.
Thanks to arcane Senate rules, Democrats need ten Republican votes to pass the Equality Act. That’s a very tall order.
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CommentaryJoe Biden needs to push the Equality Act through in his first 100 days as President
The bill is written and the votes are there in both houses. The measure just needs the commitment of the Biden administration to make it a priority.
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PoliticsBill to strengthen federal hate crimes laws introduced in Senate
The bill was filed in response to a court ruling in a bizarre Amish hate crime.
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News (USA)This senator might vote for Kavanaugh. So activists sent her 3000 coat hangers.
The pro-choice Republican might vote on party lines… and help end reproductive freedom.
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News (USA)Thank you, Sen. McCain, for being a maverick in the battle to save healthcare
Could this be the deathblow to the Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare?
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News (USA)Jimmy Kimmel goes after critics of his healthcare plea in perfect take down
Kimmel is fighting back against the Republican efforts to take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
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News (USA)These Republicans are giving Trump the finger & supporting transgender rights
“We should not turn anyone away who is willing and able to serve our country, period. The president is wrong.”
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News (USA)Here’s what Republicans have been up to all day while trying to repeal Obamacare
Trump says it’s time to “Let Obamacare fail,” and says that “I’m not going to own it.”
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News (USA)Once again Republicans turn to Mike Pence to save their anti-equality agenda
Last time it was Betsy DeVos’s nomination; the vote this time is to reverse Obama-era legislation protecting funding for Planned Parenthood.
