This morning at 10 a.m. the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will mark up the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, S.1102. WATCH LIVE HERE This legislation would allow the same-sex partners of federal civilian employees to be eligible for health benefits, a practice that would bring the federal government in line with almost 60% [...]
As we told you last week, the House passed a package of app of appropriations measures that include important provisions on HIV and LGBT issues, including ending the ban on the use of federal funds to support syringe exchange programs and cutting off funding for disproven abstinence-only programs that ignore, and even denigrate, LGBT youth. Yesterday, the [...]
This post on our continuing grassroots efforts toward an inclusive ENDA comes from HRC’s organizer David Turley: I have spent the past week in Oswego, which is about five hours north of New York City in upstate New York and the largest town in NY-23. I first got to know Oswego when I was here two months [...]
Today New York Governor David A. Paterson issued an executive order extending anti-discrimination policies to gender identity for state employees. HRC Associate Director of Diversity Allyson Robinson was on hand and provided the photos from this historic event. Said HRC President Joe Solmonese: “Governor Paterson has taken significant action to advance equality for all New York state [...]
This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee marked up and passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act. In stark contrast to the lengthy and often contentious consideration of the legislation in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month, the Senate Committee took up and passed the bill in a [...]
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