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 Partners...
Historically, the Federal Government has been a leader in offering important benefits to its employees. But today we are lagging behind, and...
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.
There is certainly nothing more American than ensuring that people have equal job opportunities and are paid fairly for a full day's work.
We lost an engineering professor to another university that did offer domestic partnership benefits because of his feeling that the lack of ...
This critical legislation will provide health, life and survivor benefits to same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees.
Mr. Chairman, I appear before you today both as the lead author of this legislation, but also as a lesbian Federal employee who has been in ...
He went on to say that, as Americans, we are all affected when our promises of equality go unfulfilled.
Government should work for us, not against us.
It is disturbing and demoralizing to be treated as a second-class citizen and worker.