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• Quandary Over Gay Rights Bill: Is It Better to Protect Some or None?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Quandary, Over, Gay, Rights, Bill, Better, Protect, Some, None, Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin, Human Rights Campaign, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Capitol Hill, George H W Bush, George Miller, Joe Solmonese, Enda Action Center, National Center For Transgender Equality

  There's a saying in Congress about passing legislation: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The transgender community is learning that lesson the hard way.

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• Tammy Baldwin Announces Gender Identity ENDA Amendment

  Published: October 17, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Enda, News, Tammy Baldwin

  Tammy Baldwin has announced a move to restore gender identity protections to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Today she announced that she has secured an agreement from the Democratic leadership to add an amendment to H.R. 3685. United ENDA writes: "Clearly, our preferred strategy is to pass the original ENDA (H.R. 2015)

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• Quandary Over Gay Rights Bill: Is It Better to Protect Some or None?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Quandary, Over, Gay, Rights, Bill, Better, Protect, Some, None, Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin, Human Rights Campaign, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Capitol Hill, George H W Bush, George Miller, Joe Solmonese, Enda Action Center, National Center For Transgender Equality

  There's a saying in Congress about passing legislation: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The transgender community is learning that lesson the hard way.

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• Quandary Over Gay Rights Bill: Is It Better to Protect Some or None?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Quandary, Over, Gay, Rights, Bill, Better, Protect, Some, None, Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin, Human Rights Campaign, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Capitol Hill, George H W Bush, George Miller, Joe Solmonese, Enda Action Center, National Center For Transgender Equality

  There's a saying in Congress about passing legislation: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The transgender community is learning that lesson the hard way.

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• ENDA Goes Before House Rules Committee; Headed to Floor

  Published: November 5, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Barney Frank, Enda, News, Tammy Baldwin, Transgender

  a protected class." Rep. Tammy Baldwin's amendment, which would add protections for transgender individuals back into the bill, may be heard on the floor as well, however, the exact process by which that would occur is reportedly being considered by the Rules Committee. Baldwin declined to add her name in support of the watered-down ENDA

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• Update: ENDA Floor Vote Coming Tomorrow

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Barney Frank, Enda, News, Tammy Baldwin

  including Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin's proposal to restore transgender protections to the bill. The Baldwin amendment will get ten minutes for debate. The floor vote had been been tentatively scheduled for Tuesday..." UPDATE: Human Right Campaign endorses watered-down bill, presses for transgender amendment... Previously ENDA Goes

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• House Passes Employment Non-Discrimination Act 235-184

  Published: November 7, 2007, 6:34 pm

  Tags: Barney Frank, Enda, Nancy Pelosi, News, Tammy Baldwin

  recommit failed 222-198. Tammy Baldwin withdrew her amendment adding transgender protections at the end of debate. Baldwin released a statement following the vote. Here are a few clips of the debate this afternoon: Below, Representative John Lewis speaks in favor of the bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement in support of the

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• Employment Nondiscrimination Act not enough.

  Published: November 8, 2007, 3:45 am

  Tags: Glbt, Transgendered, Employment Nondiscrimination Act, Gay Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Tammy Baldwin

  Today, Congress passed the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, banning hiring discrimination against gays. This was a historic moment, as this was the first-ever civil rights legislation for gays that has ever been passed by Congress. We have come a lo

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• Barney Frank Endorses Clinton, Takes Economic Advisor Role

  Published: November 14, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Barney Frank, Democratic Party, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, News, Tammy Baldwin

  of Congress, Frank and Tammy Baldwin, have thrown their support behind Clinton: "When Baldwin endorsed Clinton last summer, she cited her longstanding friendship with the senator as well as a shared commitment to health care reform. In addition, the Wisconsinite described Clinton as "strong and vocal" in her support of ending employment

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• News: China Moon, Kevin Rudd, Spice Girls, Kentucky, Truman Capote

  Published: December 3, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Australia, Brokeback Mountain, Canada, China, Crime, David Beckham, Film, Gay Slurs, Global Warming, Kentucky, Kevin Rudd, Mitt Romney, New Jersey, New Orleans, News, Philadelphia, Space, Spice Girls, Tammy Baldwin, Theatre, Truman Capote, Vancouver

  with Representative Tammy Baldwin. Fixer-upper: Richard Neutra house goes on market in Santa Monica.

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• A curious media black hole

  Published: December 15, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Media, Impeachment, Dick Cheney, Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Luis Gutierrez

  members Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin and Luis Gutierrez for the committee to actually begin hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. But don't you find it curious that there's been literally no traditional media coverage of it? Three Members of Congress, all on the Judiciary Committee, call outright for impeachment

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• Colorado Gay Activists Bypass Gay Candidate in House Race

  Published: December 17, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Colorado, Election 2008, Jared Polis, News, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Gill

  of openly gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin as well as the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, was bypassed by top gay fundraisers and activists in his home state in favor of Joan Fitz-Gerald, a former Colorado Senate President. The Rocky Mountain News reports: "At a fundraiser Thursday night at the Bonnie Brae home of activist Scott Coors and his

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• Pelosi Intervenes So Tammy Baldwin's Partner Can Fly

  Published: April 1, 2008, 10:07 am

  Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Military, Tammy Baldwin

  order to get Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin's domestic partner on a military flight for a congressional fact-finding trip to Europe. The speaker succeeded, but the

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• Pentagon refused to transport Rep. Tammy Baldwin's partner

  Published: April 1, 2008, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Tammy Baldwin, Gay

  Don't have they have more important wars to fight?

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• Some Congress Members Are Gay

  Published: May 10, 2008, 9:05 am

  Tags: Gay Lifestyle, Barney Frank, Congress Gay Members, Jim Kolbe, Openly Gay, Same Sex Marriage, Tammy Baldwin

  Yes, the world is not open to discussion about same sex marriages or same sex dating. One of the reasons is that people are not open-minded. They have closed minds to anything they do not like or understand. Being gay is not a choice. It is a choice to openly tell people that you are [...]

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