It was announced earlier today that the House Education and Labor Commitee is postponing the markup/review on ENDA which was scheduled for a vote on Wednesday at 10am.

The Commitee Chairman, Rep George Miller, said that there are ammendments that still have to be reviewed and that is why the bill is being postponed... according to the Bilerico article. It's true that the bill has gone unchanged for the most part since its original debut a few years back, but now we're playing politics.

Rep Miller needs to be told to stop messing with our equality! Pushing this back to December-February is pushing it back into the mid-term elections of next year, a time when support for LGBT legislation is going to be hard to come by. Thus, successfully killing ENDA.

If you have something to say to The Honorable George Miller, email him here.

George Miller

If Nevada LGBT's want to know how D-3 Dina Titus would allow this bill to be postponed, email her here. (She doesn't cosponsor the bill anyway, so you may want to ask her about that  while you're at it.)

Dina Titus
 


Comments

Leo Murrieta

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:13:37

Congressman Miller, Although I do not live in your district, I am a fellow Democrat, and I am also a Gay American. HR 3017 affects me and many of your constituents directly. HR 3017 has been seen in the LGBT community as one of the most important issues of our Equal Rights movement... and as the Chair of the Education and Labor Commitee, this legislation has been halted? I emplore you to move swiftly on this legislation, because your constituents are waiting on your leadership. I will personally get in contact with your constituents (with the help of the magical internet) and have them voice their concern over your postponing of this important legislation. We are looking for champions in Congress, and I am confident that my Democratic officials in the House and Senate will rise to that challenge.
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What I sent to the Congressman.

 



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