A resolution to amend rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit employment discrimination in the Senate based on sexual orientation.

Amends rule XLII (Employment Practices) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit employment discrimination in the Senate based on sexual orientation.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 74 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 74

  To amend rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit 
  employment discrimination in the Senate based on sexual orientation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 5, 2003

Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mr. Smith, Mr. Daschle, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
  Breaux, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Bayh, Mr. 
Durbin, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Levin, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Jeffords, 
Mr. Feingold, Mr. Lautenberg, Ms. Collins, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Harkin, Mr. 
   Bingaman, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
 Lieberman, Mr. Reed, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Schumer, 
    and Mrs. Clinton) submitted the following resolution; which was 
         referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  To amend rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit 
  employment discrimination in the Senate based on sexual orientation.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE.

    Paragraph 1 of rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is 
amended by striking ``or state of physical handicap'' and inserting 
``state of physical handicap, or sexual orientation''.
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