Politics
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Maryland Senate Prez Tells Advocates He Will Expedite Gender Identity Bill If It Passes Committee
The Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee held a hearing on House Bill 235, the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, today, April 7, taking testimony in favor...
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Chiefs Testify That DADT Repeal Implementation Is Proceeding Without Issue
[Photo: Gen. Peter Chairelli, vice chief of staff of the Army, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, April 7, 2011. (Photo by...
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Oetken Nomination Sent to Full Senate, As DuMont Nomination Remains in Limbo
Today, the Senate Judicary Committee moved forward the nomination of J. Paul Oetken, who was nominated for a judgeship in the Southern District of New...
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Arkansas High Court Strikes Down State’s 2008 Adoption Ban
The Arkansas Supreme Court today, in an opinion published without dissent, struck down the state’s 2008 ballot initiative that prohibited unmarried, cohabitating individuals from adopting....
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ENDA Introduced — With 92 Fewer Co-Sponsors Than at the End of the 111th Congress
At the end of the 111th Congress, 203 members of the 435-member body had joined Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in co-sponsoring the Employment Non-Discrimination Act....
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Prop 8 Judge Walker, Now Retired, Tells Reporters He’s Gay
Now retired, former U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, who presided of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, was...
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Senators Kerry, Leahy, 10 Others Ask DOJ, DHS to Hold Same-Sex Bi-National Couples’ Immigration Petitions
Following up on the March 31 letter that Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) sent to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seeking a stop on deportations of...
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Same-Sex Partners Included in Open Enrollment Period for Federal Long-Term Care Insurance
On Monday, April 4, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) Open Season. The program, which OPM...
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Gender Identity Bill Makes it Out of Maryland Senate Rules Committee
Maryland Senator Katherine A. Klausmeier’s (D-Baltimore County) office confirmed on Tuesday, April 5, that the Senate’s Rules Committee is about to meet. The Rules Committee, according...
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LGBT Maryland House Members Ask Senate President to Pass Gender Identity Bill Out of Rules Committee
In an open letter sent to Maryland Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller (D-Calvert, Prince George’s), the seven LGBT members of Maryland’s House of Delegates...
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DOMA Repeal Bill Sponsors Ask Boehner to Brief Them on House’s DOMA Defense Efforts
On Monday, April 4, the lead sponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act — the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act — asked...
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RNC Slams Obama on DADT Repeal, Stopped DOMA Defense, Prop 8 Opposition
[Image, above: A screen capture from the top of the Republican National Committee’s new website, “Hope Isn’t Hiring,” which takes aim at President Obama’s record...
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House Committee to Hear From Service Chiefs Thursday About DADT Repeal Efforts
Following up on this past week’s largely uneventful House Armed Services Military Personnel Submcommittee hearing featuring Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley...
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LGBT Issues @ the Briefing: ENDA and DADT
In LGBT news from today’s White House press briefing transcript: Q: One of the President’s goals has been the passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination...
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With Obama’s Announcement, the Dynamic Shifts
President Barack Obama filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission today to begin his re-election campaign. Although expected, the move shifts the conversation...
