by Michael M. Gleeson | The Hill
Legislation that would provide benefits to domestic partners of federal employees will soon be marked up by a House committee and could hit the floor by the end of 2009.
Under current law, same-sex couples working at the federal level are ineligible to receive the same healthcare, retirement and family leave benefits afforded to their married counterparts. Many companies in the private sector have long offered their employees those domestic partner benefits.
