D.C. Agenda — the new Washington, D.C. LGBT newspaper — reports today that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will consider a bill to provide domestic partner benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees next Wednesday morning, Dec. 16.
The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act is sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connectict independent who also chairs the committee that will consider amendments to the measure before voting on whether to send it to the Senate floor.
In the House, the Oversight and Government Relations Committee voted 23-12 last month to send its version of the DP bill to the floor for a vote, the D.C. Agenda notes. That bill is sponsored by lesbian Rep. Tammy Baldwin and has 138 co-sponsors.
