What the heck is happening in D.C.? Nothing, until Trump deployed the National Guard
Here's what you need to know about what's happening — and what's not happening — in D.C.
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August 11, 2025
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Senate Democrats Tack Hate-Crimes Bill Onto Pentagon Spending Legislation
The Senate attached hate-crimes legislation to a must-pass Pentagon spending bill Thursday, but opponents predicted it ultimately would fail. In a bipartisan vote of 60-39, the Senate accepted cloture, which ended debate on the bill, and then moved to approve the Matthew Shepard Act by a voice vote -- attaching it as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization Bill. ''The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the defense authorization bill,'' said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. ''This bill will get vetoed.''
September 28, 2007
Congress Drops Hate Crimes From Department of Defense Bill
Congress has dropped legislation that would have expanded hate-crimes laws to include attacks on gays after it became clear the measure wouldn't pass the House, aides said Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, was widely supported by Democrats and even some moderate Senate Republicans. But because it was attached to a major Department of Defense policy bill that would have authorized more money for the Iraq war, many antiwar Democrats said they would oppose it.
December 7, 2007
Senate Dems to Try to Pass Hate Crime Measure
Senate Democrats are trying to force President Bush to sign hate crimes legislation he has threatened to veto by attaching it to a massive bill funding the Defense Department and the Iraq war. Writing violent attacks on gays into federal hate crime laws is related to the war because both are strikes against terrorism, according to a Republican senator and other supporters of the measure.
September 27, 2007
Meghan McCain Joins Young Conservatives for Freedom to Marry
The daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain joined the leadership committee of the group working to change views within the Republican Party.
November 15, 2012
Letters to President-elect Obama: Lorri L. Jean
Open letters from 17 gay men and lesbians.
November 19, 2008
The Executive Order Gatekeepers
With ENDA languishing in Congress, the fate of an executive order that would protect millions of federal contractor employees from anti-LGBT discrimination may rest with a few top-level White House advisors.
March 20, 2012
How the Stain of Prop. 8 May Be Removed From California
It would repeal the anti-marriage equality language of the infamous Proposition 8.
June 5, 2023
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, champion of 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal, dead at 82
Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, leaves a largely pro-LGBTQ+ record.
March 27, 2024
Letters to President-elect Obama: Evan Wolfson
Open letters from 26 gay men and lesbians.
November 19, 2008
Ileana Ros Lehtinen Becomes First Republican to Sponsor DOMA Repeal
DOMA Repeal Gets Its First Republican Cosponsor
September 23, 2011
Would a New President Clinton Repeat DOMA's Mistakes?
It's time to ask Hillary Clinton whether she's prepared to veto anti-LGBT legislation outright, or if she'd consider 'defensive action,' like she contends DOMA and DADT were for her husband.
November 9, 2015
This week, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump showed how disease and despotism walk hand in hand
Opinion: When tanks replace syringes, the deterioration of our health and democracy will follow, writes John Casey.
June 11, 2025