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“My opponent is radical leftist Tammy Baldwin who was ranked the #1 most liberal Representative in Congress last year. She voted for ObamaCare but complained it didn’t go far enough! She openly pushes for a full government takeover of our health care system. She’s been on the front lines of the effort to Recall Scott Walker. She eats, sleeps, and …

“My personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman. But in a civil society, I believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want, and it’s no business of mine if two men or two women want to get married. The idea that allowing two loving, committed people to marry would have any impact …

So says Richard Mourdock, the Indiana teabagger who just upended six-term GOP Sen. Dick Lugar.

“My Democrat opponent, Tammy Baldwin, just announced a staggering two MILLION dollar quarter here in Wisconsin for her Senate campaign. But that money isn’t just coming from Wisconsin. It’s coming from radical Left Wing groups across America. We Republicans are already fighting the national left here in Wisconsin. But now we’ve got every liberal group looking to promote the far …

Sen. Sheffield, will you yield to the gentlewoman from Queens? Apparently, she’s not kidding.

Even though the major oil companies are turning in world record quarterly profits, today the GOP members of the Senate thwarted a bill to repeal their massive multi-billion dollar tax subsidies. Senate Republicans, including Scott Brown of Massachusetts, today foiled President Obama’s plan to strip $24 billion in tax subsidies from the country’s largest oil companies, potentially fueling an election-year …

People For The American Way reports that Maryland state Sen. Anthony Muse, one of NOM’s allies in the battle to repeal marriage equality, has published the above sample ballot in his bid to move up the to U.S. Senate. PFAW writes: Muse, an African American minister in the Washington suburbs, is challenging Sen. Ben Cardin in a Democratic primary election …

After months of obstructionism by the GOP, the U.S. Senate today finally approved President Obama’s nomination of Michael Fitzgerald to the federal bench, making him the fourth openly gay federal judge in the nation. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: Fitzgerald’s confirmation will make him the first out LGBT Article III judge serving outside of New York City. Article III …

At this writing 21 Senate Democrats have signed on to a call for a marriage equality plank in this year’s Democratic Convention. Chris Johnson reports: The Washington Blade received statements from the offices of 21 Democratic senators — including Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) — expressing support for including a marriage …

Moderate GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe will retire at the end of her current term. “Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term,” she said in a statement explaining her decision to retire. Snowe said her ability to win re-election was not at issue—she was heavily favored to win …

Two-term Sen. Ben Nelson (NE) has announced his retirement, spurring renewed fears that the Democrats will lose their Senate majority in 2012. Nelson has consistently been one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, and during the very brief period in 2009 in which the caucus held 60 seats, his was usually the toughest vote to secure. Still, no …

Sen. Bob Menendez has become the 32nd member of the Senate to become a sponsor of the bill to repeal DOMA. Freedom To Marry applauds via press release: “Freedom to Marry applauds Senator Menendez for joining the growing list of senators who call on the federal government to end its discriminatory treatment of married same-sex couples,” said Marc Solomon, National …

Yesterday the Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act without any infamous DOMA repeal attachment. Virtually every national hate group has been raising money on the falsehood that Sen. Dianne Feinstein would insert the repeal of DOMA into the bill. The version already passed by the House also does not include a DOMA repeal. Instead it contains …

As usual, Perkins goes all straw man: “If the ban on sodomy is lifted, can the ban on adultery be far behind?” Who fucking cares? On the other hand, Newt Gingrich would enlist in a heartbeat!

Late this afternoon NOM fired out an “emergency alert” that “Senate liberals” headed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein were planning to attach the repeal of DOMA to a “must pass” Defense Authorization Bill. The outrage! The trickery! The…totally untrue lie by compulsive liars who can’t stop lying?The Human Rights Campaign’s Fred Sainz moves in for the kill. “Their members and their …

Recapping the DOMA battle in the Senate and the continuing fight over Proposition 8.

A last-ditch GOP attempt to block the FCC’s coming rules on net neutrality has failed in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats narrowly defeated the measure by a vote of 52-46. Politico notes that the president had promised to veto the bill. It is unclear whether Senate Republicans intend to attempt a related resolution in the future. A similar measure by …

Log Cabin Republicans “Today’s hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee makes clear what we already knew – that while the nation is fast approaching a tipping point in favor of respecting all marriages, we are not there yet,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director. “There is much work to be done before we cross the finish line. …

The Senate Judiciary Committee has narrowly voted 10-8 to move the Respect For Marriage Act, which would repeal DOMA, to the full chamber for consideration. Discussion during today’s debate revealed that the repeal’s sponsors will probably not submit the bill during this or next year as it has little chance of passage on the Senate floor. Aware of that decision, …