Last night, the House stopped the silly Repubs from striping the hate crimes items from the
Defense Authorization bill.
The vote was 178 to 234.
Here's more:
You may recall that in July, the Senate voted 63 to 28 to add the provisions of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act to the defense bill. Nearly identical legislation passed the House earlier this year on a bipartisan vote of 249 to 175. Conferees are expected to retain the hate crimes provisions in the final version of the conference report and today’s vote is a strong show of support for the hate crimes language.
So far, it's going good and it should be given to Obama to sign very soon. Let's hope for a steady pace and less mess from the Repubs.
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good week in lgbt news...
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