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Tammy Baldwin in the News
LGBT community takes step forward
Sunday, November 18, 2007 (91 reads)
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' It seems, over the course of human history, there has been a constant struggle by some groups of people to find a greater justice in their society. In recent years, one such group has been the LGBT community...
...In the last few weeks and month, focus in the LGBT community in Wisconsin and across American has been on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)...ENDA passed on Wednesday, and of this we can be proud. But only a half step was made toward justice. A full step would have entailed embrace and voting for the Baldwin amendment to ensure that an all-inclusive ENDA passes and becomes law...
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Baldwin touts non-discrimination act
Monday, November 12, 2007 (101 reads)
U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, appeared Sunday on the C-SPAN program "Newsmakers," touting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007, which passed Wednesday in the House of Representatives. The bill prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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EDNA Passes House Without Trans Protections
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 (105 reads)
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act but without protections for trans-workers after more than five hours of debate, wrangling, maneuvering and lobbying. In the end the House voted 235-185, mostly along party lines...
...Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) - the other openly gay member of Congress - proposed an amendment that would reinstate gender identity and secured the support of House leadership to introduce it. After a brief debate on the amendment in the House on Wednesday, Baldwin pulled it before a vote. It allowed Baldwin to speak in favor of trans rights on the record, but without a recorded vote Republicans will not be able to use transgender rights as an election issue in 2008.
In withdrawing the amendment, Baldwin said the fight is not over...
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ENDA passes House
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 (91 reads)
In what could be argued was the most important gay vote ever taken in Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 235 to 184 Wed., Nov. 7 to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Passage came after openly gay Rep. Barney Frank made an emotial plea to his colleagues...
...His remarks also came just minutes after another emotional plea from the House's only other openly gay member, Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. Baldwin had led efforts in recent weeks to have 'gender identity' added to the legislation. Backed by more than 300 LGBT groups, Baldwin had pushed the amendment as a way to provide protection for transgender people and as a way to strengthen the bill's protections for gay people...
...On the floor of the House [Wednesday], Baldwin said that while she believed there was 'strong support' in the House for adding gender identity to the bill, she also expected it would 'fall short of adoption.'
'I have been asked why I pressed for and insisted on this amendment,' said Baldwin. 'I believe those who will be left behind by this bill deserve to hear on this House floor that you are not forgotten and our job will not be finished until you, too, share fully in the American dream...'
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News about the Democratic Party, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty.
For the last two years, Nancy Pelosi has been the driving force behind the Democratic agenda, but now she is about to become facilitator in chief.
As Roland W. Burris prepared to claim his seat, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, insisted the Senate has the legal authority to bar him but left the door open to negotiations.
 Tim Kaine has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to succeed Howard Dean as party chairman.
Leaders are weighing a quick executive order against legislation, which risks a fight but would be permanent.
Political bosses like New Jersey’s Joseph Ferriero have begun to flourish in suburbia where jobs are the coin of the realm.
Senate Democrats said the Constitution gives them the power to block the Illinois governor’s pick, but some experts were not so sure.
 She was one of the few prominent black leaders who never faltered.
 There's a down-to-earth and cool vibe in Chloe 81, but a lackadaisical approach to fashion is uncommon for this crowd.
Contention is emerging among officials against Caroline Kennedy as she pursues Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat.
Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for government spending to help the needy, but when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, they are cheapskates.
 What kind of relationship will the Obama White House have with the media? A lot will depend on Robert Gibbs.
 The Democratic representative talks about why he had to take charge of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, why he kept his mustache and what his grocer father taught him about extending credit.
In 1965, New York Democrats couldn’t agree on their leaders, so Gov. Nelson Rockefeller persuaded Republicans make their choices for them. Sound familiar?
 Angered by their senator’s support of John McCain, Connecticut Democrats sounded off at a standing-room-only committee meeting.
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