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1/6/2009
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| This comes as very welcome news to the coal miner families who
faced the devastating prospect of losing their health benefits, said
Representative Alan B. Mollohan. I appreciate that Vice President Gore
took a personal interest in averting a crisis that would have impacted
thousands of our citizens. His efforts to include this funding fix in
the budget request upholds a very important promise that was made years
ago to our West Virginia miners. |
| The Presidents Select Committee for ian and Concerns of
Rutgers University has urged the university to provide the same
benefits to ian and employees as are provided to
hetexual employees since 1988. The university has begun to
provide bereavement leave, access to athletic facilities, library
borrowing privileges for the bona fide sole domestic partners
of ian and employees, and it is planning to open family
housing to and ian graduate students, but it has rejected
efforts to extend the single most important employment benefit of
all -- health insurance and health care -- to the life partners
of ian and employees. |
| I think that further research will continue to show new benefits
for both kinds of tea. There will be some new benefits found
for black tea, and then some new for green tea. What should be
kept in perspective is that so far there are some differences in
health benefits of the two varieties, for example, for the
heart, blood sugar, etc. |
| Rutgers University has been a leader in working to end
discrimination against ian and students, faculty, and
staff. It was one of the first universities to add ual
orientation to its non-discrimination policy. In 1988 it issued
the landmark study, In Every Classroom, which provided a
history of the ian and community at Rutgers, an analysis
of its current status, and 133 recommendations designed to end
all forms of prejudicial discrimination. The university has
implemented many of these recommendations, but it has fallen
behind in the area of employee benefits. Many major universities
have already begun providing family health coverage to ian
and employees, including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
MIT, Chicago and the public state universities of Minnesota,
Iowa, and Vermont. Many corporations and political jurisdictions
have also moved in this direction, including Levi Strauss, Ben &
Jerrys, Lotus, San Francisco, and Boston. New York City is the
latest cit. |
| I welcome the Administrations interest in proposing a long-term
solution to the funding problems of the combined benefits fund, Senator
Robert Byrd said. Those who depend on this fund are mostly elderly
women and many are in poor health. I am glad that I could provide a
short-term fix to get through this immediate crisis, but our retired
miners and their dependents certainly deserve the security and peace of
mind that will be provided by a more permanent fix. |
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