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GOP senator sides with Democratic majority on bill to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity. WASHINGTON — Walking a delicate tightrope of not alienating his conservative base but needing to endear himself to Pennsylvania’s more moderate electorate, Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey voted for a historic gay rights bill Thursday. Toomey was one of 10 Republicans joining Democrats to pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, or ENDA, which would make it illegal for an employer to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Toomey voted Monday to advance the bill, a procedural test vote that usually signals how a lawmaker will vote on the final passage of a bill. Click here to read the article.
GOP senator sides with Democratic majority on bill to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity.
WASHINGTON — Walking a delicate tightrope of not alienating his conservative base but needing to endear himself to Pennsylvania’s more moderate electorate, Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey voted for a historic gay rights bill Thursday. Toomey was one of 10 Republicans joining Democrats to pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, or ENDA, which would make it illegal for an employer to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Toomey voted Monday to advance the bill, a procedural test vote that usually signals how a lawmaker will vote on the final passage of a bill.
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