House GOP Boosts Funds for DOMA Legal Defense

House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren, R-Calif., signed off in September on a $500,000 increase in the maximum value of the contract with the firm, Washington-based Bancroft. Republicans have raised the cap of the contract twice: first on Sept. 29, 2011, from its original maximum of $500,000 to $1.5 million, and again on Sept. 28 to its new maximum of $2 million....

Roll Call • Dec 14, 2012

Report: Religious Groups Spend Millions on Advocacy

The National Organization for Marriage, for example, more than doubled its advocacy expenditures from $3.3 million in 2008 to $8.6 million in 2009, the most recent data available, the group found. ...

Roll Call • Nov 28, 2011

House Leaders Plot Equal Rights Agenda

After five months of virtual inaction on the equal rights agenda, House Democratic leaders on Wednesday met privately to chart out a strategy for advancing the constituency group's priorities in the 111th Congress. Headlining the meeting was Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who with her leadership team and the three openly gay Members of Congress -- Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-...

Roll Call • Jun 27, 2009