Congress has ordered the president’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to find a way to pay for the $63 million a year in new spending for benefits of same-sex partners of federal employees. John Berry, director of the OPM, announced the decision last year to extend the benefits. In a hearing before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said, “ it’s been five months and we’re still waiting for those offsets, which is preventing the bill from being taken up on the Senate floor.” Family advocates explain that it doesn’t matter whether there’s enough money because it violates the Defense […]
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- Press Release
- 30 Apr 2010
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