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Just as I said yesterday...they are planning to convert jobs from private business to the public sector and unionize those folks, then they are going to expand benefits to "partners". So much for any cost savings they are trying to tout on their "insourcing" boondoggle. This is payback to the unions, pure and simple. Here is a link from the AFGE (FedGov union) on the bill that was recently introduced:

The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009

The bill provides that a federal employee and his or her domestic partner be entitled to benefits available to a married federal employee and his or her spouse. Surprisingly, it was sponsored by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME). Lieberman is a Dem, so it is expected with him, but there is no excuse for Collins.