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AN ANONYMOUS U.S. OFFICIAL on Japanese emergency operations to cool the Fukushima nuclear complex that has been leaking radiation since the recent earthquake
Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011

Open quoteMy vote against [DOMA] — which some predicted would cost me re-election in 1996 — is among my proudest votes as a United States Senator.Close quote

  • JOHN KERRY,
  • Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, in an op-ed, while calling for a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman
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