The Republicans came out in full force against it. In fact every single nay vote came from a Republican. Nice!

It's also interesting to note that John (Bomb Bomb Iran) McCain is also listed among those who voted to support the gang rape of women like Jaime Lee Jones. Also, see THIS VIDEO just so you will have a better understanding of how sick the republican party really is.

Why would you sue the company? That doesn't make as much sense as suing the cops because you got raped, robbed or what ever.

None of those things are sue able things those are criminal things

and the bill doesn't deal with that.

Looks like you've come to right place, and yes we go against the grain a little here. I used to belong to a music forum where if you had even a REMOTELY conservative viewpoint you were ripped to pieces.

Senator Al Franken introduced a bill

this would never have been an issue if women weren't allowed in the military.

Looks like you've come to right place, and yes we go against the grain a little here. I used to belong to a music forum where if you had even a REMOTELY conservative viewpoint you were ripped to pieces.

She was still housed in an "army style" barracks that was male dominated. You get my point, that type of situation is no place for women, it's just asking for trouble.

Those were the good ole' days Bob!

Duncan, I would hardly say that Republicans oppose that law. I guess what I would say is if Franken felt so strongly about it why didn't he actually introduce it as a bill instead of trying to slip it through as an amendment on a defense appropriations bill. Must look at the big picture instead of picking and choosing what fits your argument.
I especially like the fact that your first sentence was...
"Senator Al Franken introduced a BILL that would allow people (women) to sue their employers if they are raped on the job." yet further down in the paragraph you say "Franken introduced the bill (OR AN AMENDMENT TO)" as if there is no difference. I know why because if you would have specified amendment to an unrelated bill in the first sentence your argument isn't as shocking and doesn't make the point you want it to make. (BTW why did you specify that it allows only WOMEN?)

"Old fashioned." Lordy, what low self-esteem you must have.

The anti-rape amendment introduced by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) may be stripped from the defense appropriations bill by Appropriations chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), the Huffington Post reports. Oct 23. 2009

As TPM reported earlier this week, the Department of Defense, along with the White House, opposes the amendment.

Does that mean that Don was One of them there "Right wing crazies?

First, it wasn't an unrelated bill. It was a defense appropriations bill and the amendment clarifies who's qualified to make bids for defense contracts funded by those appropriations.

And the amendment had nothing to do with the rest of the bill passing. The vote on the amendment was whether to attach the requirement to the appropriations bill, not whether to pass the bill with it attached.

No one who cast a vote on this amendment had any reason to consider other than whether they thought it was a good idea.

Naomi: If women would just stay out of the workplace in general, there'd be a lot fewer sexual harrassment suits, I imagine. And if we flogged them if they drank alcohol or required them to always be with a male relative when they left the house, we could cut way down on date rapes, too.
And by golly, let's make them cover their whole bodies except their eyes, the cursed temptresses, lest they corrupt some poor innocent "stressed-out" man into raping them wherever they are.

"Old fashioned." Lordy, what low self-esteem you must have.

Until I hear all sides of the story I won't form my opinion on who's at fault.

That's the whole point of the amendment in question. If she had been "allowed" by her contract to pursue relief in court, everyone's testimony would have been out there for everyone to see.

Bill,

It's not about changing the rules of the game.

Here's what happened: she claims she got raped by co-workers. She wanted to sue them. But Halliburton/KBR said she couldn't because it happened on the job. She (and her lawyers) said that's not true, because happened in a barracks on off-hours.

And again, "she should have known better" is not an excuse to allow alleged rapists a free pass.

Ya gotta shoot them not shot them. LOL

Donnie's my hero...He was treated like the anti-christ, but he never backed down an inch from em'! That particular "clique" sent many a lesser man scurring away with their tails between their legs...JPF is like a parallel universe to that place.

Bill, if you think the circumstances didn't warrant a lawsuit againt KBR/Halliburton, well, you're entitled to your opinion. Personally, I think the whole locking her up in a shipping crate and threatening her job if she left Iraq to get medical care sounds actionable.