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Via tips-q‘s David Hart, in the late evening article entitled Breaking: Hate Crimes Bill Passes Senate!:
A cloture vote just passed by 63 to 28. By prior consent that passes the bill. I will post the roll call vote when it is provided by the Senate but at least five Republicans voted aye.The bill has already passed the House. Further details Friday AM. The bill extends federal hate crimes laws to sexual orientation and sexual identity. In essence it provides government assistance to local law enforcement and creates sentencing enhancements for bias crimes.
The Associated Press confirms in their piece Senate votes big expansion of federal hate crimes:
The Senate has approved the most sweeping expansion of federal hate crimes protections since the original law was enacted after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.The legislation broadens federal reach to protect those physically attacked because of their gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or a disability. Current law is limited to crimes motivated by race, ethnicity or religion…
Further reading at tips-q: Breaking: Hate Crimes Bill Moving Along in the Senate (describing amendments to the bill).
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I posted on the Obama threadIt passed by voice vote, after 60 votes were tallied, so there probably won’t be a roll call tally
With Hate Crimes protection in Louisianaallow me to tell Tony Perkins…KISS my G*D DAMN wrinkly queer a$$!
The 28Look at this stellar group:
I wonder how many of them shack up at C Street?
Nice Prelude to ENDAFive Republicans voted yes; No dems in opposition. GOP votes were Collins, Snowe, Merkowski, Voinovich and Lugar.
Brownback and the Little Peter will claim victory. Who cares? The Brownback amendment was gratuitous.
Finally I will not feel compelled to debunk the copious collection of crap that the right wing was spewing daily. Truth doesn’t seem to be an important “value”
for the family values crowd.
Harry Jackson was predicting a defeat this morning. Watch out for the exploding head shrapnel. Tony Perkins can kiss my Jewish ass.
Is this the first piece of “good” explicitly transgender inclusive legislation?When the President signs this we can celebrate a milestone!
and the first of many to come!
AlaskaHappy to see Lisa Murkowski voted for it.
Queer old McConnell didn’t vote for Hate Crimes billMcCain made himself dead to me too
Murray and CantwellI feel happy that I keep tapping them gently on the shoulder about this.
Then again, I’m sure their votes were a given.
I am gonna withold judgementThis thing has still got to go back into committee to combine the bills. Torpedoes off the port bow are still a very real prospect, not to mention the looming threatened veto. I am really not in the mood to hear another round of “we’re sorry we did our best, can we have some more money for the next election?”
Where is Lindsey Graham?Did he grow a conscience and skip the vote altogether? LOL.
Should Obama veto this billHe will lose EVERY LGBT vote in 2012
Makes me feel good about President ObamaWhen I was at the Stonewall reception at the White House a couple of weeks ago I was standing next to Judy Sheppard when the President walked over to her and told her he was going to give Harry Reid a call the next day to start moving the bill!
Alright!! He did it!
Health care is next, I hope there are no “pre-conditions” that exclude transgender people. This is now!
ENDA is next! They may be waiting for the fall to first hold hearings and have a report on LGB and T discrimination as a selling point!
I’m not a fan of incrementalism, but if it is there for the taking, I’ll take it and reach for more.
The Dallas Principles!
I’d like to see who skipped the vote
They better not repeat a non inclusive ENDAI won’t support HRC since that sh*t, and Barney Frank went down considerably in my esteem.
Awww, that’s so sweet!!LOL!!
What veto threat?I thought Obama supported this bill. Or was this vote only to attach it to the defense budget bill so it actually hasn’t passed? I’m confused now – please ‘splain Lucy.
Don’t forget the UAFA.Immigration reform is also on Obama’s agenda for this year early next year.
According to Sen. Schumer we can expect a Senate immigration reform bill by Labor Day. Hopefully the LGBT community (i.e. UAFA) will be included in the immigration reform.
Not that simpleIf I read the AP report right, it’s still part of the defense bill, which contains the wasted money on those F-22s (I think). Obama threatened to veto the bill if they kept the F-22s in it.
Obama will be right to veto the bill; it shouldn’t be part of the defense bill, and it’s the right thing to do to stop wasting our defense dollars. Blame the Ds who attached the bill; they’re playing chicken with Obama with the hate crimes bill – and its protections – as the prize.
See my reply above…
Looks like…….…..assumming Byrd and Kennedy are home sick:
7 all R: Graham SC, Gregg NH, Corker TN (and the other guy from TN whose name I can’t remember), Martinez FL, and Bond MO. Interesting that three of the five retiring R senators skipped the voted and one other bucked the party.
BSI don’t give a damn if a few planes might get built in exchange for finally getting the federal gov’t to recognize us after 40 years of trying.
Reid says…………the F-22s are probably coming out in conference with a bipartisan ammendment, whihc McCain also supports.
Moreover…………if the bill has the planes in it, it doesn’t mean the DOD has to have them built does it? Can’t it just say “you authorized this, but we’ve determined we don’t need it”?
Here’s the Advocate articlehttp://www.advocate.com/news_d…
Headline?
Hate Crimes Passes, Faces Veto
That’s how I read itI read this as the voice vote was simply to confirm it as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill, with the extra “shall not infringe on First Amendment protections” language, which doesn’t change any substance. A different AP article says the same thing. Of course, the Republicans attempted to filibuster, but since Dems now have 60 seats in the Senate THANK YOU MINNESOTA, they shot down the fillibuster and proceeded to vote.
Article here.
This isn’t over. Not by a long shot. Don’t exhale just yet.
The inaction Obama has shown AND the DOJ briefA veto of the Hate Crimes bill no matter what the planes included will be remembered as KILLING the Hate Cimes bill….PERIOD.
Then 2012 he won’t get any queer votes.
Autumn, this title is misleadingThe Senate got Hate Crimes onto the Defense Authorization Bill as an amendment via this voice vote, after defeating Republican attempts at a filibuster of the procedure. The Senate has NOT passed the Mathew Shepard Act yet. It has to stay part of the Defense Authorization Bill, get passed in the Senate, and it has to go back to the House for reconciliation. It is NOT ready to go up to the President’s desk, and that is what this article implies. Please, PLEASE clarify this.
Almost don’t believe itWe held a statewide call-in campaign to both Begich and Murkowski, but I didn’t expect her to support it. When I called Lisa’s office, the guy who answered was surprised that I wanted her to vote yes. I figured they got lots of calls against, but maybe he was surprised to get so many calls in favor. On the other hand, Begich agreed to co-sponsor, but isn’t on the final list. Wonder what happened. Alaska politics is so confusing.
Waiting for the “RINO”!GOP catcalls aimed at Snowe and Collins… pretty SOP at this point.
C’mon Olympia; dump that nasty label and go to “Ind”!
In all fairness to Sen. GrahamHe was very busy working on the Sotomayor SCOTUS confirmation. I do still think he should have voted…
mathThe Jud Comm has 19 members and this vote saw 91 senators voting, with 2 of the 9 absentees being Byrd and Kennedy.
<– ConfusedWhy was this an amendment? It had 63 votes it could have easily passed standalone. Why the amendment games? Now Obama has to choose to make the GLBT community angry or save billions in aircraft waste. Anyone else feel like we’re being used to keep some pork in the Bill?
It can be saidthat being used to keep some pork in a bill means that we’ve finally achieved equal rights with everyone else.
I agree with you, however. Even though it was somewhat insincere and hypocritical, I agreed with McCain when he said this shouldn’t be a part of some larger, unrelated bill.
Maybe he thought voting on thiswould be a conflict of interest.
or he broke a nailEither way, it was tragique
If it were that easyObama wouldn’t need to veto it. And it’s still wasted money.
It’s funny – some Ds are playing politics and rewarding campaign contributors, using us as a shield to do it, and you’re cheering them on. Sorry, America deserves these protections without needing to funnel money to defense contractors as the price for equality. If the F-22s money is still in there, I hope Obama vetoes.
Daniel
Of coursethat’s the problem. We are totally being used by a few D congressman to waste money.
And don’t assume this 63 translates to 63 on a standalone. Some may have voted yes precisely because a combined bill is harder to stop, and shaky Ds don’t want to commit to it as a standalone.
LOL………yeah, I was thinking that too….he brought up Full, Faith and Credit re marriage with Sotomayor, but didn’t press her on it.
I don’t care…..……about a few more military dollars in this instance. Funny, you are complaining about the D’s doing this when the R’s did it for the time they congress, and worse!
Signing Statement?Obama has already used a signing statement on a bill (I generally hated it when George W did it). I would think that is a possible tactic to ignore the planes but allow the Hate Crimes protections. I, too, have long looked forward to the Matthew Shepherd Bill recognition. Finding “suicide” victims in the trunks of cars is just not right – you #^*&@# Alabama cops.