Senate Adopts Unwelcomed Amendments to Hate Crimes Bill
July 20, 2009
Today the U.S. Senate adopted four amendments to the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- three of which were strongly opposed by the Human Rights Campaign. Once the Senate votes on the final Defense Department authorization bill it will go to a conference committee with the House where HRC urges the amendments to be removed.
Continue Reading ►Broad Coalition Opposed to Sessions Hate Crime Amendments
July 20, 2009
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights released a letter today to Senators urging them to defeat Sen. Sessions' amendments to the hate crimes bill to add the death penalty and to force the Attorney General to create unnecessary regulations. Votes are expected on the Senate floor later today. Call your Senators and tell them to vote no on the Sessions Amendments. The full text of the letter is available in pdf and following the jump...
Continue Reading ►TAKE ACTION: Tell Senate to Defeat Sessions Amendments to Hate Crimes
July 20, 2009
As we told you about over the weekend, today the Senate will take up the Defense Department authorization bill again and three amendments threaten to weaken the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Prevention Act that the Senate voted to add last week.
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