Dems may have had votes for ENDA

Published 02/24/2011
analysis by Lisa Keen

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=5496

Did Democrats squander an opportunity to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act last year? Should they even bother to re-introduce the bill this year? And does a bill like ENDA, focused only on workplace discrimination, still make sense?

The answers to those three questions are "not if you're assessing the real-world prospects," "yes," and "maybe."

A closer study finds the political reality for ENDA in the 111th Congress, which ended in early January, was one with sharp edges, blurs of movement, and obscured details.

perhaps all of us need to DC and protest