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Hate Crimes Bill - on to the Senate

by: avocado

Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 17:27:29 PM EDT

If I am not mistaken, the hate crimes bill that has just been passed by the House of Reps has been introduced yesterday in the Senate by Senator Kennedy [MA]. I am pretty sure that it is S.909. Text is not yet available from the Government Printing Office. It has been referred to Senate committee, read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

It already has 33 34 35 37 39 co-sponsors (as of 5/5/2009). I am proud to note that both senators from New York are among the co-sponsors. Check if yours are there, and contact to thank them, if they are, or to urge them to vote for it, if they are not currently supporting it.

The webpages and contact forms for your Senators are to be found here.

List of Senators co-sponsoring the bill is below the fold. I am going to try to keep up with updates following the list.

avocado :: Hate Crimes Bill - on to the Senate

Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] - 4/28/2009
Sen Bayh, Evan [IN] - 4/28/2009
Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 4/28/2009
Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] - 4/28/2009
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 4/28/2009
Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] - 4/28/2009
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 4/28/2009
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 4/28/2009
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] - 4/28/2009
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] - 4/28/2009
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] - 4/28/2009
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 4/28/2009
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 4/28/2009
Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 4/28/2009
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 4/28/2009
Sen Merkley, Jeff [OR] - 4/28/2009
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 4/28/2009
Sen Murray, Patty [WA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Nelson, Bill [FL] - 4/28/2009
Sen Nelson, E. Benjamin [NE] - 4/28/2009
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 4/28/2009
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 4/28/2009
Sen Shaheen, Jeanne [NH] - 4/28/2009
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] - 4/28/2009
Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] - 4/28/2009
Sen Udall, Mark [CO] - 4/28/2009
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 4/28/2009

Update. Joined.

Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 4/29/2009

Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] - 5/1/2009

Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 5/4/2009

Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV [WV] - 5/4/2009

Sen Burris, Roland [IL] - 5/5/2009

Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 5/5/2009

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Senator Kay Hagan. I really hope she supports this bill when it hits the senate.

"It's hard to free fools from the chains they revere." ~ François Marie Arouet.

by: TSinGarnNC16 @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 17:14:43 PM CDT

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Both of mine

on the list: Snowe and Collins.

You know, "The Last of The Moderates"? ;)

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good one!

:0) Yeah, Snowe just penned an op-ed piece in the NYTimes.com about Arlen S. leaving the party. Good to know moderates who are still there are getting more vocal.

by: avocado @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 17:44:28 PM CDT

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LOL

I feel so stupid. You're the one who posted about Snowe's op-ed :0)

by: avocado @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 18:38:59 PM CDT

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No prob, avocado

I actually thought I hadn't saved it and was so thrilled to see it up later on... thought I'd lost the whole darned thing.

This was my first day away from Augusta in a week and back in tomorrow...

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by: Louise @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 20:00:16 PM CDT

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Mine too

Casey and new Democrat Specter.

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by: QScribe @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 23:11:54 PM CDT

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I would LOVE to read

a diary with your thoughts about Specter and PA politics/ the local atmosphere at some point!

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by: Louise @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 05:01:28 AM CDT

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I haven't followed Specter's career

closely enough to have much to say about him that isn't obvious.

As I said in a comment after his, er, defection, I've never been able to forgive him for the way he demolished Anita Hill and paved the way for Clarence's Thomas' seat on the Supreme Court. He's always struck me as the worst kind of careerist/opportunist. Not that there's any shortage of them in Washington. In his early years in the Senate he always made a big deal of his background as a DA (from Philly), which is one of the things that led him to take the lead role in attacking Hill. When that performance led to a feminist/progressive voter backlash, he stopped talking about what a terrific prosecutor he was. He has barely squeaked by in one election after another ever since.

As I'm sure you know, he's been a thorn in the side of the radical right, and that ain't bad. I've had to admit grudging admiration for him a few times. But still, the bad taste lingers. If I had to state a succinct general impression, I think the man would sell his mother to the Somalian pirates if he thought it would get him a few votes.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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by: QScribe @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 10:00:41 AM CDT

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gee, where's Kay Hagan?

She headlined the HRC Carolinas dinner but can't co-sponsor this bill?

by: Pam Spaulding @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 20:41:07 PM CDT

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I don't know

but maybe she wasn't there? Boxer of California just joined the co-sponsors on 4/29, a day later, but she was not listed originally.

by: avocado @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 08:56:14 AM CDT

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Neither of mine there.

Hardly surprising.

I am the lizard queen!

by: RainbowPhoenix @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 23:32:30 PM CDT

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Durbin is on there

Burris is not.

by: kevinchi @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 23:36:05 PM CDT

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33 co-sponsors...

2 of them Republicans. That's not bad...anyone know if this would be filibustered?

by: Bruno @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 00:15:45 AM CDT

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Really?

Snowe and Collins are the ONLY Republicans???

Jeez, Olympia- can ya at least get some packing boxes and a few "change of address forms", just in case? Maybe think it over?

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by: Louise @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 05:06:01 AM CDT

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If two republicans are on the bill

and considering several conservative dems are also co-sponsoring, I do not see a fillabuster happening. The numbers are not there.

by: bruhrabbit3 @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 10:47:01 AM CDT

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By my research...

The Republicans need a filibuster to stop this bill. I went through all the voting records of non-sponsor Dems, and only Byrd of WV seems a probability to vote against it. There are a few others with not enough of a track record to say for sure, like Tester from Montana.

BTW, newibe Kay Hagan spoke at a gay rights group function in NC earlier this year, so I can't imagine she would vote against this bill.

by: Bruno @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 13:29:29 PM CDT

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Feinstein has ....of course.

But not Boxer... but, she will probably vote for it I hope. Although I know she is against Marriage Equality.

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by: Orion45 @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 00:24:26 AM CDT

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Boxer is as pro gay marriage as they come in the senate

She was vocally against prop 8 and has a 100% gay rights record from the HRC.

by: Bruno @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 01:25:16 AM CDT

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Ditto

Boxer joined 4/29, updates lag.

by: avocado @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 08:59:14 AM CDT

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I'm wondering?

If Feinstein getting on as a cosponsor before/instead of Boxer possibly has to do with Feinstein being on the Judiciary committee. (...I don't know if that makes sense or not.)

I tried to call both earlier today, but their lines were clogged.

by: mcc @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 01:54:34 AM CDT

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Boxer joined yesterday

updates to the Congressional website lag a bit.

by: avocado @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 08:59:44 AM CDT

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Ditto

Boxer has joined the co-sponsor list on 4/29 (I posted before Thomas, Library of Congress site was updated, was updated).

by: avocado @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 08:58:13 AM CDT

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Mark Udall Colorado is on the Bill,

our other senator, Bennett, says he will vote for it.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

by: HappyCat @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 00:24:31 AM CDT

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Hate Crimes Bill

Both of my senators were not on the list but I sent an email via their sites requesting that they co-sponsor the bill. I will see if Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have the guts or balls to send me a response.

Karen

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A Fitting Memorial

Today is the ten year anniversary of the Admiral Duncan bomb - the last of the three Copeland bombs, and one of the most vicious hate crimes committed against the LGBT community in my lifetime. The bomb killed three people, one of whom was four months pregnant at the time and was celebrating her first pregnancy with her husband and two gay friends, one of whom was to have been her child's godfather; of the four only her husband survived. The bomb also injured 79, four of whom had to have limbs amputated.

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by: tavdy79 @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 15:46:09 PM CDT

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Thanks for the information

Does anyone know when they will be voting on the bill?

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by: T2inDC @ Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 17:59:26 PM CDT

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I don't know. From the House action this bill got, I'd say about a month. Probably less than that. If we are lucky much less; I mean I can't imagine this bill needing much work at this point...

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Hmmmmm

Akaka is on the list but not Inouye. We will have to get on that. Inouye hasn't exactly been a slouch in sponsoring legislation this year; it's mostly focused on Veteran, Aboriginal, and Medicare supplementals. Hawaii has inclusive hate crime laws. I'll write Inouye and hassle him to co-sponsor.

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