update on the corporate politics of rape
the franken amendment remains in jeopardy. today we have this news, via ThinkProgress:
Defense contractors are lobbying Sen. Dan Inouye (D-HI) to strip Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) anti-rape amendment from the defense appropriations bill. The amendment would withhold defense funding from companies barring their employees from taking sexual abuse cases to court. “The defense contractors have been storming [Inouye's] office,” said one source.
inouye chairs the appropriations committee (the franken amendment is tacked onto a must-pass apporpriations bill).
email sen. inouye at inouye@senate.gov
let him know that rape victims deserve justice, irrespective of defense contracts. —vab
