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House Dems question funding for GOP’s defense of DOMA
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/218445-house-dems-question-ongoing-funding-for-gops-defense-of-domaHouse Democrats are questioning where nearly $750,000 in federal funds to outside counsel, hired to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, will come from.
On Tuesday, what began as a House Appropriations Legislative Branch subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2013 budget request for several government agencies, including the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, quickly devolved into a partisan fight over the allocation of resources to defend DOMA.
Subcommittee ranking member Mike Honda (D-Calif.) questioned CAO Daniel Strodel as to where he had gotten the funds that were later transferred to the House’s Office of General Counsel.
Strodel testified that the money had come from the House Salaries, Officers and Employees account. The Department of Justice had not contributed any funds to the House’s defense of the law.
