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Hmm....http://bit.ly/HXduA 10/27/2009 |
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You see this? http://bit.ly/HXduA 10/27/2009 |
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Franken's Anti-Rape amendment against private contractors maybe stripped from bill by fellow democrat. http://bit.ly/wWbz #GodDamnAmerica 10/26/2009 |
SSP Daily Digest: 10/22
Swing State Project —
... : Congratulations to Senator Daniel Inouye, who today becomes the third-longest-serving Senator in history and, adding in his House tenure, the fifth-longest-serving Congressperson. The 85-year-old Inouye has been in the Senate for almost 47 years. Inouye passed Ted Kennedy today, and will pass Strom Thurmond in another eight months, but is still chasing Robert Byrd. (Unfortunately, Inouye may be spending his special day being a jerk, by trying to remove Al Franken's anti-rape amendment from the defense appropriations bill.) ...
HuffPost's Stein: Inouye may gut Franken anti-rape measure
Daily Kos —
This is unbelievable: An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who denied victims of assault the right to bring their case to court is in danger of being watered down or stripped entirely from a larger defense appropriations bill. Multiple sources have told the Huffington Post that Sen. Dan Inouye, a longtime Democrat from Hawaii, is considering removing or altering the provision, which was offered by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and passed by the Senate several weeks ago. Inouye's office, sources say, has ...
Franken's anti-rape amendment in trouble?
The Political Carnival —
... Remember those 30 Rushpublic senators and Senator Al Franken's anti-rape amendment (video here)? They have company. My Twitter pal David Waldman brings us some potentially bad news. : An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who denied victims of assault the right to bring their case to court is in danger of being watered down or stripped entirely from a larger defense appropriations bill. Multiple sources have told the Huffington Post that ...
Franken's anti-rape amendment in trouble?
Daily Kos —
... opposed the amendment offered by Al Franken (D-MN) prohibiting the federal government from working with contractors who prohibit employees from pressing rape charges against them in court. Democratic challengers to these Senators are already bashing them for the vote. And Democratic activists express their righteous rage over the vote daily. How could you not? Well, you might not if you thought you were going to get the rug pulled out from under you. But that couldn't possibly happen, right? An amendment that would prevent the ...
One ‘No’ Too Many?
Top Stories from CQ —
... , D-Minn., may be stripped away by a fellow Democrat, not a Republican. The third longest-serving senator in history, Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, is reportedly considering altering or removing the provision that is part of the fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill. A spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Inouye, said in an e-mail that the committee does not comment on ongoing conference negotiations and emphasized that the White House supports the intent of Franken’s amendment. Never let it be said that the Democratic Party is monolithic, or ...
it turns out people hate it when you vote in favor of rapists
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... here's even more stories depicting the bad press the gop has heaped upon itself. c&lvideo; cafe shows the maddow clip which interviews jamie leigh jones, the contractor who was drugged and gang-raped by her halliburton co-workers, upon whose sad story the franken amendment was based. unfortunately at this juncture, it looks like sen. dino inhooye will gut sen. franken's amendement out of the bill: ...
Capital Eye Opener: Friday, October 23
Capital Eye —
... (D-Hawaii) to remove or water down language from the defense appropriations bill that prohibited defense contractors from denying victims of assault or rape the ability to bring their case to court, reports Sam Stein at the Huffington Post, who also cites CRP data in his article. The language was added to the bill in an amendment by freshman Sen. ...
Priorities
the talking dog —
... An occasional theme here is the sheer wondrousness of the military-industrial-Congressional-entertainment complex, the vast organic conspiracy between big money and our Government to make sure that Government operates to make sure that it operates in the interests of big money (and not in the interests of, well... anyone else ). A case in point is what ls likely to happen to "the Franken Amendment, " a popular (it passed the Senate 68-30, with lots of support in the House as well) measure offered by Minnesota's new junior senator Al Franken that would limit the ability of ...
ThinkFast: October 23, 2009
Think Progress —
... from companies barring their employees from taking sexual abuse cases to court. “The defense contractors have been storming [Inouye's] office,” said one source. ...
Sen. Inouye to Join Republicans for Rape?
Firedoglake —
... Powell links this story at Huffington Post as the source for Inouye’s possible course of action.
The telephone number for Inouye’s Washington office is (202) 224-3934. I wonder if a few calls might bring him around to honoring the intent of the huge majority of Senators who voted for the Franken amendment. It is very important for Inouye to hear from us, because as Sam Stein reports in the HuffPo article, Inouye is under incredible pressure from defense contractors: ...
ThinkFast: October 23, 2009
The Hollywood Liberal —
... from companies barring their employees from taking sexual abuse cases to court. “The defense contractors have been storming [Inouye’s] office,” said one source. The Senate voted 68 to 29 yesterday to “extend new federal protections to people who are victims of violent crime because of their sex or sexual orientation.” The hate crimes measure, “ ...
Rapacious Capitalists in Defense of Rape: Why defense contractors want to protect their employees' right to rape one another
The Eclectic Radical —
... Apparently, major defense contractors do not believe that strong-arming their employees into not bringing suit against them for on-the-job rape by co-workers or superiors is an inappropriate corporate policy. So they are attempting to strong-arm Congress into dropping or weaking the amendment. Does it say more about them or about me that I am not terribly surprised? While I admit to a certain level of misanthropic cynicism about life in general, specifically when it regards corporate activity, I admit it could be the latter... but in this case I ...
