Senate appears set to approve ENDA

Well, it's about time the Senate passed this bill. But it will only be symbolic. The Republicans in the do-nothing House oppose it, of course, and it won't even come up for a vote. I can't believe that Americans are willing to put up with the current outrageous situation in the House. But we'll see next year.

Today's election day, BTW, so if you have something on the ballot in your area, be sure to vote.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gay-rights-workpla … d=20780744
By BearinFW | 11/05/2013 12:53 AM | 2 comments
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  • Look, the Senate and the president are certainly due their own share of criticism. But come on. The House refuses to pass almost any legislation that actually has a chance of becoming law. Even the shutdown delay only passed because of Democrats' support. The House has taken their failure to govern to new lows during the current term. In the first year and a half of the current Congress (through July), only 15 bills had become law, by far the lowest total ever. And that is mainly the fault of the obstructionist House, which does little except vote repeatedly and futilely to end Obamacare.
    BearinFW 11/05/2013 04:50 PM
  • Smoothbod, if you back off of the usual Obama bashing ala Fux Noise, you will realize that he is trying to help us while the GOP House is trying to keep us "fags" subjugated. Using a quote he has said before, President Obama, wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post Monday urging Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

    Our President wrote, "Our nation's journey toward equality isn't complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," he wrote.

    And our President is not a johnny-come-lately to the need for equal rights for us in employment. From the first days of his Presidency, he has supported us with this concept. When the Houston GLBT Political Caucus in 2008 asked Mr. Obama if he would support a "formal written policy of non-discrimination that includes sexual orientation and gender identity or expression" Mr. Obama gave a written response: "Yes."

    The bill is now all but sure to pass in the Senate, where a handful of Republicans voted Monday to allow the bill to be voted on -- including one stalwart conservative, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Still, its fate in the Republican-led House is unclear. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Monday that the speaker OPPOSES the legislation.

    So, who is the problem? Speaker Boner and his do-nothing House, that's who!
    rjzip 11/05/2013 11:24 AM