Boehner Opposes ENDA, Quashing Hopes In The House
SAHIL KAPUR – NOVEMBER 4, 2013, 10:10 AM EST3368
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) revealed Monday that he opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, quashing hopes for the bill as it secures the votes to pass the Senate.
"The Speaker believes this legislation will increase frivolous litigation and cost American jobs, especially small business jobs," Boehner's spokesman Michael Steel told TPM in an email.
The statement came just hours before the LGBT rights legislation was expected to clear a key test vote in the Senate. Democrats believe they have 60 votes to break a filibuster and put the bill on a glide-path to passage in the upper chamber. But Boehner's opposition suggests ENDA is going nowhere in the Republican-led House.
The Speaker has long opposed ENDA, and voted against it in 2007. The national sea change in public opinion for the cause has not changed that. "We have always believed this is covered by existing law," said an aide to Boehner.
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