Star-Tribune: Franken Asks DOJ to Probe Use of ‘Geotags’
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Main Justice staff | August 24, 2010 4:26 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder pushes back against an aggressive Rep. Raul Labrador at a Feb. 2 House Oversight Committee hearing on the Fast and Furious gun-tracing operation. "What you have just done is disrespectful," Holder told the Idaho Republican.
"The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans' benefits to opposite-sex spouses of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans." -- Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Congress explaining the DOJ's stance on federal benefits to married same-sex military personnel.
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