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Gay Congress Members Still Face Inequality

Advocate | Kerry Eleveld | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Jared Polis, Congress, Gay Rights, Congressional Spouses, Polis, Tammy Baldwin, Gay Representatives, Rep. Jared Polis, Colorado, Politics News

When the partner of freshman Colorado congressman Jared Polis went to get his Congressional Spouse ID last February at Member Services, he thought the...

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Berry: Why Obama Admin Is Denying Lesbian Couple Benefits

Bil Browning | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Klenart, Domestic Partner Benefits, Opm, Obama Adminstration, John Berry, Tammy Baldwin, Golinski, Politics News
Bil Browning

Much has been made of the Obama administration's decision to defy a California judge's order that they enroll a lesbian federal employee's partner as her health-insurance beneficiary.

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Breaking Down the Health Care Bill with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin

Charlotte Robinson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Health Care Bill, Charlotte Robinson, Health Care Debate, Health Care, Tammy Baldwin, Ee, Politics News
Charlotte Robinson

In this exclusive interview, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), explains the landmark health care bill in comprehensive language we can all understand.

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Your Turn To Grill A Representative On Health Care Reform

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Representative Baldwin, Health Care Reform, Health Care Bill, Tammy Baldwin, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Transparency, Politics News

The Huffington Post's citizen reporters have spent countless hours poring over the health care legislation coming out of congress and digging into the...

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DNC-LGBT Fundraiser Boycott Called For Over White House DOMA Defense

AMERICAblog | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality Caucus, Lgbt, Dnc, Boycott, LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Doma, Tammy Baldwin, Democratic National Committee, Gay Marriage, Jared Polis, Barney Frank, Politics News

Pam Spaulding has published an email detailing just who's coming to the DNC's $1,000 (and up) a head gay fundraiser next week. I suspect those folks a...

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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Repealing DOMA Will Ease the Warren Sting

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense of Marriage Act Barr, Doma, Tammy Baldwin, Obama Inauguration, Bob Barr, Immigration, Gay, Libertarian, Libertarian Party, Civil Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage Equality, Gays in the Military, Gay Rights, Ban on Gay Marriages, Rick Warren, Bob Barr Libertarian, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell has been floated as one opportunity for Obama, but I encourage the new President to try frying a bigger fish -- the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Michelle, Hillary, and Maureen at the DNC

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Glbt, Victory Fund, Michelle Obama, Dadt, Steny Hoyer, Democratic National Convention, Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, Dnc, Human Rights Campaign, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

Senator Clinton gave a performance that even Maureen described as "electrifying." Until I read the Dowd column this morning, I thought the hardest of the hardcore Hillary haters would be won over. But no.

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