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Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:08 PM Dec 2012

Big Tent News: Tammy Baldwin Wins Committee Assignments

Go Tammy!!

The Senate's first out member is expected to serve on the committee that oversees the legislation that has become one of the last rallying points of the LGBT-rights movement.

Sen.-elect Tammy Baldwin's (D-Wisc.) assignment to the committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions for the 113th Congress was approved today by the Democratic Steering Committee.


Source and More:
http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/12/tammy-baldwin-named-to-two-key-senate-committees.html
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