Ethics

Franken's Rape Legislation Signed Into Law

By Ed Brayton

Here's a little reported fact, courtesy of Think Progress. Obama signed into law a defense appropriation bill that included Sen. Al Franken's amendment to prohibit American military contractors from enforcing a provision in their employee contracts that forbid those who were raped and abused while working for them to take those companies to court.

30 Republicans in the Senate actually voted against that amendment. Jeff Sessions called the amendment a "political attack directed at Haliburton." Well yes, because it was Haliburton that required such a provision to prevent their own employees from suing even after being gangraped by other Haliburton employees and having the company do nothing about it.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).