{"id":198933,"date":"2007-09-27T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/27\/senate-passes-hate-crimes-bill-and-welds-it-to-the-defense-authorization-bill\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:21:00","slug":"senate-passes-hate-crimes-bill-and-welds-it-to-the-defense-authorization-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/27\/senate-passes-hate-crimes-bill-and-welds-it-to-the-defense-authorization-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Hate Crimes Bill and Welds it to the Defense Authorization Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there won&#8217;t be a veto of <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/09\/senate_passes_hate_crimes_bill_guaranteed_passage_with_defense_authorization.php\">the hate crimes bill<\/a>.  Sexual orientation is now mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Democrats, the one Socialist (Sanders), and the one &#8220;Connecticut for Lieberman&#8221; senators voted Aye, as did nine Republicans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Warner (VA)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Lugar (IN)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Collins (ME)<\/li>\n<li>Olympia Snowe (ME)<\/li>\n<li>George Voinovich (OH)<\/li>\n<li>Arlen Specter (PA)<\/li>\n<li>Norm Coleman (MN)<\/li>\n<li>Judd Gregg (NH)<\/li>\n<li>Gordon Smith (OR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This meant that it was a veto proof majority, 60 votes.  Vitter and Craig voted no.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised at Gregg and Voinovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there won&#8217;t be a veto of the hate crimes bill. Sexual orientation is now mentioned. All of the Democrats, the one Socialist (Sanders), and the one &#8220;Connecticut for Lieberman&#8221; senators voted Aye, as did nine Republicans: John Warner (VA) Richard Lugar (IN) Susan Collins (ME) Olympia Snowe (ME) George Voinovich (OH) Arlen Specter (PA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198933"}],"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=198933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}