LGBTQ+
Contact: Drew Hammill/Ashley Etienne, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Senate passed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by a bipartisan vote of 78-22, including a majority of Senate Republicans. Democrats introduced identical legislation in the House, which currently has 194 Democratic co-sponsors:
Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Department of Defense announced a new slate of benefits for gay and lesbian service members and their families:
“Today, the Department of Defense took a major step forward on the path to equality, justice, and fairness in our country – upholding the very values and ideals that gay and lesbian service members and all of our men and women in uniform fight to preserve each day.
Contact: Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Drew Hammill, spokesman for Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, released the following statement today on House Republicans’ decision to include language to continue to authorize the use of taxpayer funds to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):
Contact: Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Supreme Court announced that it would hear cases challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8:
Contact: Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Committee on House Administration reported that, over the past fifteen months, Speaker Boehner has racked up nearly $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded legal bills to an outside law firm to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). To date, Speaker Boehner’s legal team has lost all five DOMA cases decided in federal courts:
Contact: Nadeam Elshami/Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the historic end of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which falls on Thursday:
Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616
Ilan Kayatsky (Nadler), 212-367-7350
Washington D.C. – Today, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congressman John Conyers, Congressman Barney Frank, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Congressman Jared Polis, Congressman David N. Cicilline and other House Democrats filed an Amicus Brief in the case of Edith Schlain Windsor v. United States of America.