Steny Hoyer

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  The Republican Empire Strikes Back (against LGBT people)

  Friday, May 20, 2016

  House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer FTW.

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  Transgender former Navy SEAL plans primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Hoyer

  Thursday, February 12, 2015

  Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL, is planning a primary challenge to the second-ranking Democrat in the House, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer.

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  Lawmakers call on Obama to sign executive order protecting LGBT workers

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014

  WASHINGTON -- Nearly 200 Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday calling for an Executive Order banning contractors from receiving federal government contracts unless they have a policy prohibiting discrimination based on…

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  House GOP leadership quietly increases cap on DOMA defense to $3 million

  Tuesday, January 15, 2013

  WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives‘ continuing effort to defend the federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) will soon reach $3 million. Late Monday, House Democrats learned that Republican leadership had again privately raised the…

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  SPLC condemns House Republicans’ intervention in disabled veteran’s case

  Monday, April 2, 2012

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Monday condemned efforts by House Republicans to prevent a decorated 12-year U.S. Army veteran and other married gay and lesbian veterans from receiving the same…

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  Pelosi, Hoyer rebuke Boehner for DOMA defense in veteran case

  Saturday, March 31, 2012

  WASHINGTON -- House Democratic leaders are continuing to criticize Speaker John Boehner for defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court and accuse him of going beyond his existing authority in defense of the anti-gay law…

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  U.S. House Democrats join fight against DOMA in court

  Saturday, November 5, 2011

  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 132 other Democrats on Thursday joined in the fight to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in court by filing a legal brief in support of litigation against…

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  Boehner, House GOP leadership move to defend DOMA in court

  Friday, March 11, 2011

  House GOP leadership took a key step this week that will allow it to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman

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