the need to consider providing domestic partners' benefits to Federal employees should also be evaluated in light of the...
This bill shows that we recognize the value of every American and their families and their relationships.
I regard this as an issue of equal compensation both in pay and benefits, but predominantly, we're looking at benefits f...
As a diplomat, I advanced American principles of equality, fair play, and respect for diversity in the countries to whic...
LGBT Americans are not demanding so-called special rights, as some claim, through this or any other bill.
First, principle is at stake. Equality, fair mindedness, and respect for diversity are at the heart of America's identit...
We have families that we love, that we need to take care of, just as you do.
This issue is hard only because we make it so.
The government to which I have devoted 33 years of my working life will not honor my partnership because I love another ...
Being treated so unfairly now because of who I love is more than a matter of fairness; it is an issue of civil rights.
Opening Statement of Senator Herb Kohl
Senator Kohl, what we see is the need for all of the coordination--and I do believe that Florida is a terrific model, be...
I'd like to thank Senator Martinez for holding today's hearing on emergency preparedness and the elderly.
I'm honored to be joined by the ranking member of the subcommittee, Senator Isakson, and I'll invite him to deliver some...
I think that is a slight imbalance, given what we have to do on the ground.
Well, I have found this panel to be very interesting, and this hearing, I think, is an important way...
I am not optimistic about the possibility of avoiding a wholesale disaster in West Africa that will have direct spillove...
This work is being done, to a great degree, through the counternarcotics office in AFRICOM.
