huffingtonpost.com - 10/24/2009
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The United States Senate
passed landmark legislation today that expands the coverage and protection of
federal hate crime laws to now include sexual orientation, gender, gender
identity and disability. While a 1994 federal law technically covered gays, the
scope of the law was so narrow that it ...
shakespearessister.blogspot.com - 10/22/2009
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Woot ! The Senate today ... voted to
approve the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act...
(also known as the Matthew Shepard Act) by a vote of 68-29, sending the first civil rights legislation protecting gays and lesbians to President Obama for his signature. The bill was attached to a ...
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Senate Passes Matthew Shepard Act
huffingtonpost.com - 10/30/2009
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A round of applause for a true civil-rights landmark: Final passage of a federal hate-crimes bill
Crooks and Liars —
Yesterday, the Senate passed the Defense appropriations bill, and actually garnered some 28 "No" notes from Republicans who otherwise would normally be eager to jump on a defense-spending bill. Their reason? Well, attached to the bill was the nation's first real federal hate-crime law. And that, it seems, was too much for them. But then, that's par for the course for the modern Republican Party, which ever since the days of Nixon has come to represent the knuckle-dragging bloc of American culture, which resists efforts to expand and protect the civil rights of all Americans ...
A round of applause for a true civil-rights landmark: Final passage of a federal hate-crimes bill
Orcinus —
... Yesterday, the Senate passed the Defense appropriations bill, and actually garnered some 28 "No" notes from Republicans who otherwise would normally be eager to jump on a defense-spending bill. ...
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