House Votes For Protection For Gay Workers (Faces Senate/Veto Threat)

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House Votes For Protection For Gay Workers

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-gay8nov08,1,3686443.story?coll=la-news=a_section

by Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11/08/07

'The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passes without the inclusion of transgender people. It faces a possible Senate filibuster and a veto threat.

WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to extend the nation's employment discrimination protections to gay workers, the first time the long-proposed measure has passed either chamber of Congress.'