[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 7790]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. EARL BLUMENAUER

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 27, 2016

  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, last night, as I celebrated the passage 
of Representative Sean Patrick Maloney's amendment to prohibit the 
federal government from doing business with contractors who 
discriminate against LGBT individuals, I was dismayed to realize that, 
as the vote was closing, I had failed to press the button to vote to 
support the amendment, which would have made the margin of victory even 
larger. I voted for the amendment last week, and I continue to strongly 
support efforts to ensure equality for the LGBT community. The anti-
LGBT amendments offered to the same bill, which I stanchly oppose, 
demonstrate the all too real, continued discrimination that the LGBT 
community faces, even after historic achievement of marriage equality 
and the repeal of ``Don't Ask, Don't Tell.''

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