House Republicans approve taxpayers paying for DOMA
This is, of course, our taxpayer dollars.
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House sets $500K, $520-an-hour contract for DOMA defense
Leaders in the House have agreed to pay up to $520 an hour and up to $500,000 to a law firm retained to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act after President Barack Obama instructed the Justice Department not to defend a key part of the law.
The contract is between the General Counsel of the House, the House Administration Committee and King and Spalding.
Firm partner Paul Clement, a Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, is leading the defense of the 1996 law, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages. (Read the contract here.)
A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who opposed the House's move to step into about a dozen pending suits over DOMA, issued a statement Tuesday portraying the hiring of Clement as a waste.
"The hypocrisy of this legal boondoggle is mind-blowing. Speaker Boehner is spending half a million dollars of taxpayer money to defend discrimination. If Republicans were really interested in cutting spending, this should be at the top of the list," the spokesman, Drew Hammill, said.
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