More than 40 U.S. senators have signed on to a letter opposing the inclusion of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion provisions in must-pass spending bills.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.The letter, addressed to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, a Democrat, and Vice Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, comes as the Senate is about to consider the National Defense Authoriz…

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Senate Dems object to House GOP’s anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion approps riders

An apparently unified Senate Democratic caucus is demanding that government funding legislation not include “poison pill policy riders” targeting reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ rights. 
	In a letter to Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), 45 Democratic senators wrote that “partisan, discriminatory, and harmful policy riders have no place in must-pass legislation such as appropriations bills.”  
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40+ senators oppose anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion provisions in spending bills

House Republicans inserted 'poison pill' provisions, which would otherwise fail the scrutiny of congressional debate, into critical government funding …  Full story here. 
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A group of 45 Senate Democrats sent a letter Thursday urging leadership to reject the 55+ anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ measures that Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have attached to must-pass FY25 spending bills, while also arguing that the “poison pill” policy riders must be kept out of the appropriations process moving forward. The letter was addressed to the Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders, Chuck Schumer (N.…

40+ senators oppose anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion provisions in spending bills

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