ENDA advancing. (Legislation).A Senate panel on April 24 voted to send the Employment Non-Discrimination Act This article documents a proposed statute that is being considered. Information may change rapidly as the bill progresses. , which would bar employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. , to the full Senate for a vote. "Today the U.S. Senate took a major step forward in freeing our employment locations across the country from the stain of discrimination," said Sen. Ted Kennedy For other persons named Ted Kennedy, see Ted Kennedy (disambiguation). Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. . Sen. Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is an American politician, the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a Republican. of Maine, a Republican, did not support the federal bill in the past but expressed a change of heart after the panel vote. "I believe now is the time for Congress once again to take a stand against legalized discrimination in the workplace aimed at people because of who they are," she said. |
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