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Jun 27, 2023 · This legislation is being reintroduced alongside Sen.Wyden’s Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act, which Sen. Warren co-sponsors and would protect LGBTQ+ Americans from inequality and discrimination by removing gender-specific references to marriage in the tax code.
Feb 23, 2021 · The Equality Act is facing another obstacle in the Senate as Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) refused to co-sponsor the bill and won’t even say why. Collins is seen as a moderate Republican, and...
- Alex Bollinger
Feb 23, 2021 · Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), whose support for the Equality Act would be essential to passing the bill to expand the prohibition on discrimination against LGBTQ people under federal law, said...
Feb 25, 2021 · In 2019, Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican senator to cosponsor the Equality Act — legislation that would add sexual orientation and transgender status as protected classes under the...
Feb 23, 2021 · The only Republican to co-sponsor the Equality Act in 2021 is no longer backing the landmark LGBTQ+ civil rights bill. In comments to the Washington Blade, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she did not plan to formally sign onto the bill ahead of its coming reintroduction in the Senate.
Mar 13, 2019 · Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced historic, comprehensive federal legislation—the bipartisan Equality Act of 2019—to ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.
Jun 17, 2020 · The Equality Act, introduced by Senators Collins, Merkley, Baldwin, and Booker last year, would add explicit protections for LGBTQIA+ Americans to the nation’s civil rights laws, ensuring that no American is evicted from their home or is denied a service based on their LGBTQIA+ status.
