Left in the West

• "Employment Discrimination Bill a Top Priority" says DOJ

  Definitely worthy of being posted another time besides late Friday afternoon, but it's important that this gets out.

  Thomas Perez, the US Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, told members of a Senate hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) on Thursday that the fully-inclusive legislation is "top" [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  

• Sierra Club canvassing in Billings for green jobs

  Got an email from the Sierra Club organizer in Billings I thought I should share with everyone. Climate change legislation is coming up that's crucial for investing in green energy jobs -- and I suspect that both Baucus and Tester are a little nervous about backing it. So here's something [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:04pm EST
  

• Rehberg to challenge Tester in 2012?

  Did Montana's 2012 Senate race begin?

  Montana Rep. Dennis Rehberg met with Republican recruiters about a 2012 Senate run against Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday.

  Rehberg, who was seen exiting the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Capitol Hill headquarters Thursday morning, is the state's lone representative in the House.

  There's mutual interest between [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:11am EST
  

• Congress to kill SCHIP?

  John Morrison, on Facebook:

  [John] notes that the health care reform bill emerging now in the U.S House terminates the Children's Health Insurance Program in four years.

  It's true:

  The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House Democrats last Thursday would repeal CHIP at the end of 2013, shifting millions [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:03am EST