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Speed Read: ‘Bad for Mississippi’
The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Tuesday advanced a religious bias bill to the House floor, which could vote on it as early as today. The Kentucky Attorney General announced yesterday he won't defend the constitutionality of the state's ban on
FY 2012 AIDS budget: up, down, flat
The current fiscal year’s budget was cut to the bone; next year’s will be cut to the marrow, said Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on appropriations for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
Fed partner-benefits bill advances in House
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) attempted to gut the federal employee domestic partnership bill by proposing an amendment to stipulate the legislation would in no way affect the intent of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
