Expanded health benefits for state workers' partners survive House vote

Dan82 · Apr 18, 2011

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/...-partners-survive-House-vote?odyssey=nav|head

Expanded health benefits are all but certain for about 35,000 state employees beginning Oct. 1.

On Thursday, Republican lawmakers failed to overturn a ruling by the state Civil Service Commission extending health benefits to same-sex partners or other adults living with the state employees.

A resolution in the Republican-led House did not get the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the commission; a similar resolution passed in the Republican-led Senate. The House measure received 66 votes - eight shy of the 74 needed for a two-thirds majority...

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/...-partners-survive-House-vote?odyssey=nav|head
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Emberstone · Apr 18, 2011

you can't win a culture war by taking away the rights of others...

it is why republicans will lose the immigration debate, the marriage debate, and the lgbt equality debate... and why democrats will lose the second ammendment debates, though republicans dont understand the context of the second ammendment.

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