Michelle Obama confronts protester, threatens to leave fundraiser.

[muriel_volestrangler]

454. I have given an example - the university

Look, here's a list of the largest 100 federal contractors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S._federal_government

In it, you find the University of California and MIT - ie universities. If you look at the 2012 report here, you'll find the top 100 contractors for each department. There are hundreds of employers there, many of whom will not be in the states that have anti-discrimination laws.

Do you really think the Human Rights Campaign is trying to push an executive order that will have no effect whatsoever? That 37 Senators (which will be most Democratic senators - let's face it, not many Republicans will sign on to a pro-LGBT proposal) are backing a completely worthless idea, just to piss off Obama?

And people don't make their contracts with Congress anyway. They make them with the executive branch. That's the whole point of it, by definition. It executes government policy. The contracts are with the government departments, like the DoD.