Priorities for Balint include the Equality Act, a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation & gender identity
The bill also recognizes Karine Jean-Pierre, the first Black woman & the first LGBTQ person to serve as White House press secretary
For alleged financial crimes & campaign finance violations, Santos faces a probe by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Craig defended herself and threw her cup of hot coffee at him, per the police report. She is Minnesota's first openly LGBTQ member of Congress
"We cannot wait for him to be indicted or for an ethics investigations- neither would address things he has already admitted to lying about"
"It shows how low the GOP has descended that they believe their only path to power is by victimizing young people"
“I think it’s reprehensible that the Senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way,” Santos said. “It wasn’t very Mormon of him”
“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together in this new Congress”
"If ethics finds something, we’ll take action,' McCarthy said. "Right now we’re not allowing him to be on committees"
Sohn, whose appointment has been languishing since October 2021, would be the first LGBTQ person ever to serve in that role
