national/world - Senate passes defense bill raising troop pay, stripping trans medical coverage for children of service members

Stephen Groves

PBS News

Chickenshit Schumer ("D"-NY)

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ezs note: New Yorkers -  to tell the twit off, press Chuck Schumer and you will be taken to his email site.

national/world - Democratic senators seek to ax transgender care ban from defense bill

Matt Lavietes

NBC News

US Senate desk

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ezs note:  From your friends in Connecticut - thank you, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy!!!

national/world - Restrictions on Transgender Health Care Slipped into Senate's Must-Pass Defense Bill

Rebecca Kheel

Military.com

The Pentagon

Arlington, VA

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House passes defense bill after GOP adopts abortion and transgender surgery amendments

Zoë Richards, Rebecca Kaplan, Rebecca Shahad

NBC News

    Windsor, CO (Ken Buck's hometown)

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Anti-Transgender Amendment Offered on Defense Bill

Jennifer Pike Bailey
HRC

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