House Republican leadership, screwing over America one segment of the population at a time
House Democrats
are slamming one of the most outrageous examples of misplaced priorities you could imagine:
House Democrats are condemning a Republican-sanctioned $1 million spending increase to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
In a statement Tuesday, Reps. Robert Brady (D-Pa.), Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) criticized their GOP colleagues for increasing the contract with the lawyer hired to defend DOMA from $500,000 to $1.5 million.
In May, Bancroft PLLC lawyer Paul Clement was hired to represent Congress in defense of DOMA, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
There's never any excuse for the kind of bigotry inherent in what House Republicans are doing, but the fact they are increasing spending on such a misguided effort at the same time that they are trying to cut even more spending on critical services adds to the outrage. House Republicans should be trying to get a jobs bill passed through Congress, but far from moving forward on jobs, they are refusing to even vote on President Obama's jobs package. Apparently, they're too busy trashing the LGBT community to actually do anything about the job's crisis facing the American public.