All Entries Tagged With: "ENDA"
Filibuster threat makes ENDA unlikely in 2010
A small corps of LGBT political insiders, speaking on condition that they not be identified, believe the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is headed for almost certain defeat this year because supporters can’t line up the 60 votes in the Senate needed to overcome a filibuster.
Breaking what some have called an informal code of silence adopted by [...]
Rewind: Week of Jan. 22
The loss of Edward Kennedy’s U.S. senate seat to a Republican and the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down elements of campaign-finance law have caused much anxiety for the Obama administration, Democrats and progressives in general. But does the LGBT community need to worry?
On Tuesday, Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown defeated state Attorney General Martha [...]
Political shock in Mass. as Brown claims Kennedy’s seat
Republican Scott Brown secured a victory Tuesday in the Massachusetts special election, leaving many LGBT activists stunned and angry over the loss of the filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate and wondering whether the LGBT agenda can advance in Congress.
Brown, a state senator, won his bid to capture the seat previously held by the [...]
Two Senate retirements mean two losses for gays
With two veteran Democratic senators last week announcing plans to retire at year’s end, the LGBT community is losing two lawmakers that have largely been allies on Capitol Hill.
Media reports circulated last week that Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) are not seeking re-election this year — and pundits are speculating their retirement [...]
Great expectations as Congress returns from recess
As lawmakers hash out the 2010 legislative schedule for Congress, LGBT rights supporters are anticipating a House markup for the long-sought Employment Non-Discrimination Act within the next month.
Sources familiar with Capitol Hill said the House Education & Labor Committee will take up ENDA, which would bar job bias against LGBT people in the public and [...]
Trouble for Democrats means gays will suffer
The year 2009 was a mixed bag. It started out great, fizzled quickly but then came back as the year went on. There were highlights and lowlights and we need to remember them all if we are to accurately sum up the year and the decade.
We celebrated a court-mandated marriage equality win in Iowa and [...]
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