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Federal employee partner benefits bill passes out of Homeland Security Committee
12 hours ago ago from Box Turtle Bulletin
From the Senate Homeland Security Committee press release : The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday approved a measure that would provide domestic partner benefits to federal employees by a bipartisan 8-1 vote. Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., are original cosponsors of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 bill. The measure ...
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16 hours ago ago from Law Dork
News today on the legislative front comes from the U.S. Senate. Here's my Metro Weekly report, Gay Federal Employees Closer to Benefits : On Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee favorably reported the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act out of committee on an 8-1 vote. The mark-up, which took less than a half hour, stood in stark contrast to the several hours of debate ...
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North Carolina's largest county will offer domestic partner benefits to employees in same-sex relationships beginning in 2011
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President of the West African Bar Association (WABA) and human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoaaka, before an Abuja Federal High Court, over the failure of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to properly hand over before traveling out for medical check-up. © admin for Clotell - Mobile Content for Nigeria , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to ...
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12 hours ago ago from Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Heather Taylor-Miesle: The Politics Back Home
21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
This post originally appeared on the NRDC Action Fund blog, The Markup The climate talks in Copenhagen are in danger of stalling out, but President Obama has the power to push them forward. If he commits to pushing Congress to give real money to help developing nations address the realities climate change, we just might be able to reach a meaningful agreement on Friday. That kind of agreement could mean a lot of things: a cleaner world, a ...
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20 hours ago ago from Media General - WNCT.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This NC county to extend benefits to same-sex couples The Associated Press Published: December 16, 2009 Updated: December 2009 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's largest county will offer domestic partner benefits to employees in same-sex ...
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12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
In the past week the Obama administration has taken steps to clarify and disseminate its policy with respect to the promotion of human rights and democracy. Following on the heels of an administration that liked to define the purpose of U.S. foreign policy as expanding freedom around the world and ending tyranny, the Obama administration has looked for a different approach and a different vocabulary to describe the place of human rights ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
When pro-democracy leaders in Egypt start sounding nostalgic for George W. Bush, you might suspect that something is amiss. After all, only 22% of Egyptians had a favorable view of the United States by the end of Bush's presidency, according to the Pew Global Attitudes survey. President Barak Obama's speech in Cairo to the Muslim World in June was received enthusiastically. But a poor follow up has dashed the hopes raised in that speech. ...
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