{"id":190146,"date":"2010-01-02T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/franken-rape-amendment-becomes-law\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T02:35:00","slug":"franken-rape-amendment-becomes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/franken-rape-amendment-becomes-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Franken Rape Amendment Becomes Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Defense Authorization Bill was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2009\/12\/frankens_anti-r.php\">signed into law by Barack Obama about 2 weeks ago<\/a>, and the bill included Al Franken&#8217;s prohibition on defense contractors using binding arbitration to keep things like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the rape of their employees by their employees<\/span> out of court.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s attached to an appropriations bill, it only runs for a year, so I would suggest a stand alone bill, timed to hit the floor in the June-July time frame to permanently close the loophole.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how many &#8216;Phants want to vote pro-rape a few months prior to elections, particularly given the outrage over the pro-rape Republicans over Franken Amendment in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Defense Authorization Bill was signed into law by Barack Obama about 2 weeks ago, and the bill included Al Franken&#8217;s prohibition on defense contractors using binding arbitration to keep things like the rape of their employees by their employees out of court. Since it&#8217;s attached to an appropriations bill, it only runs for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,970,1000,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}