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House Archive
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A Personal Rebuke to Ike Skelton
A letter was emailed late last night to Get Equal, sent from Baghdad by a gay, Missouri soldier currently on... -
Getting It Done
As folks watch the House on C-SPAN, President Barack Obama nails down the final votes needed to pass his health... -
Questions About Massa
Late last night, technically this morning, my newest at Metro Weekly went up, “A Scent of Scnadal“: Rep. Eric J.J. Massa... -
Rep. Polis Brings Education Equality Bill to the House
At Metro Weekly, I discuss, in “A Higher Education,” the bill today introduced by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) to... -
Benefits Bill Vote Today
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding the mark-up today on the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations... -
House Set for ENDA Mark-Up, Kaufman and Kirk Sign On
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is scheduled for mark-up in the House Education and Labor Committee on Wednesday. From the Committee... -
Evolving . . . Place by Place, Issue by Issue, Person by Person
Today, Sen. Arlen Specter caused a bit of a kerfluffle with his announcement at The Huffington Post that he had... -
Hastings Withdraws DADT Amendment After White House, Congressional Pressure
From the member of Congress who’s already sent a letter to President Obama asking for action from the White House... -
Change, Congress and LGBT Issues: Talking With Rep. Polis
In the history of the United States Congress, no openly gay man, prior to this past election, had ever won... -
Roll Call: ‘House Leaders Plot Gay Rights Agenda’
Roll Call lays out the story of a high-level meeting the Speaker Pelosi had on Wednesday: Headlining the meeting was Speaker...