08/03/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"this inequality exists on the Federal level despite the significant expansion in the availability of employment-related benefits and equal treatment for domestic partners."
"We've had a researcher from the engineering school leave the State with an NSF grant that totaled more than it would have cost to implement the domestic partnership benefits State-wide in Wisconsin be..."
"Because of the Defense of Marriage Act, even those same-sex couples who are afforded the right to marry in certain States would not have those marriages recognized currently at the Federal level."
"You see, the issue we are here to address is not about personal belief, and it is not the definition of marriage."