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On the recordJuly 7, 2009
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 because of the indignity of the unequal treatment in employment.
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Tammy Baldwin
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Baldwin highlights the loss of talent due to lack of domestic partnership benefits.

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