Democrats' Path Ahead Puts Hoyer in Dilemma
By Tory Newmyer, CQ-Roll Call

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003648278

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer stands at a crossroads in the Democratic agenda.

Down one path lie easy-does-it items designed to gather bipartisan support and show the party is committed to job growth in the hopes of staving off a midterm election bloodbath. Down the other lie controversial measures that Democrats could use their cresting majority to muscle through while potentially endangering even more seats.

According to many conservative Democrats nervously eyeing re-election this fall, the road forks at a bill banning employers from discriminating against gay and transgender people.