{"id":198151,"date":"2007-12-06T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/hate-crime-expansion-defeated-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T03:57:00","slug":"hate-crime-expansion-defeated-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/hate-crime-expansion-defeated-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crime Expansion Defeated in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it was attached to an emergency spending bill funding Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/12\/congress_drops_hate_crimes_bil.php\">could not get the votes in the house, because about 30 Dems would not vote for a war funding bill under any circumstances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the bill is dead for this year, though I think that it will come up again next year.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but think that this is a shot across the bow of Pelosi, who has been rather timid compared to Reid on challenging Bush on Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding the law to cover hate crimes against gays has to be a huge issue in her district, and it being pulled is going to result in her office catching hell from her constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I think the that Bush will veto anything that this is attached to anyway, so we need to wait for a Dem president, so the anti-war congressmen have made the right decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it was attached to an emergency spending bill funding Iraq, could not get the votes in the house, because about 30 Dems would not vote for a war funding bill under any circumstances. This means that the bill is dead for this year, though I think that it will come up again next year. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1030,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198151"}],"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=198151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}