Op-Ed: Time to focus on reform legislation

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Credit: (Jim Connolly)Former Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg Three weeks ago, I stood on the Senate floor for one of the last times after 10 years as majority leader and watched green lights fill the vote board as the Marriage Equality Act passed the Senate overwhelmingly. It was a victory that was long overdue, and it would enshrine into law the protection of same-sex marriage that previously had been guaranteed only by the courts.

What I felt after the session wasn’t a sense of triumph or accomplishment, but concern about what still needs to be done not only to protect basic rights in a nation that is being torn by bitter partisanship, but also to ensure effective governance, oversight, transparency […].

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