Tammy Baldwin actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Collins, for affording me the opportunity to testify, for having this historic hearing, and for your leadership on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obl..."

"I strongly believe that we must address the significant inequality in compensation experienced by an estimated 30,000 employees."

"As it stands, some Federal employees do not receive equal compensation and benefits for their equal contributions."

"We lost an engineering professor to another university that did offer domestic partnership benefits because of his feeling that the lack of those policies was unjust."