House Republicans switch votes at last minute to kill anti-discrimination amend.

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According to Hoyer's office, the vote switchers in question were Issa, Valadao, Denham, Walden, Walters, Poliquin, and Young.

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Of course, those 7 Republicans were just the group that SWITCHED votes. There's an even longer list to be made of all the Republicans who voted against this bill from the beginning.

The only Republicans who supported the bill:

Justin Amash, Mike Coffman, Ryan Costello, Carlos Curbelo, Charlie Dent (Co-Sponsor), Mario Diaz-Balart, Robert Dold, Dan Donovan, Tom Emmer (WTF?), Mike Fitzpatrick, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chris Gibson, Richard Hanna, Joe Heck, Will Hurd, David Jolly, John Katko, Leonard Lance, Frank LoBiondo, Tom MacArthur, Martha McSally, Pat Meehan, Erik Paulsen, Dave Reichert, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Tom Reed, Elise Stefanik, Fred Upton, Lee Zeldin

Matt Salmon, Sam Johnson, and Jaime Herrera Beutler (Who gave birth today) were absent.

Notable names I see missing from that list: Barbara Comstock, Rod Blum, Cresent Hardy, Steve Knight, Scott Garrett, Tim Walberg, Frank Guinta, and Mike Bishop.

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I'm confused as to why this amendment was even brought forward. Executive Order 13672 already bars federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of "both sexual orientation and gender identity."

The Maloney amendment was drafted to overturn a separate amendment that written by Steve Russell (R - OK-05), that was passed. The Russell Amendment would allow defense contractors to fire LGBT workers if they used religious objections as an excuse.