Louise Slaughter has been fighting - and been blocked - for 12 years to pass a law banning discrimination in insurance and employment over genetic information. It passed the Senate without any no votes in 2003 and 2005, but the Republican House leadership had refused to let it be voted on.
More recently, it was blocked under a rule allowing one Senator to block legislation by Sen. Tom Coburn, who finally removed his block.
It passed now, with no Senators voting against it, and by a 414-1 vote in the House, the no vote was Ron Paul.
A lesson I'd note is that the Republican members (almost all) were not opposed to this bill, but like a lot of issues, the leadership had its own agenda.
Link to a site with relatied information on the 'GINA' bill.
Edit: corrected the vote info from a previous vote.
More recently, it was blocked under a rule allowing one Senator to block legislation by Sen. Tom Coburn, who finally removed his block.
It passed now, with no Senators voting against it, and by a 414-1 vote in the House, the no vote was Ron Paul.
A lesson I'd note is that the Republican members (almost all) were not opposed to this bill, but like a lot of issues, the leadership had its own agenda.
Link to a site with relatied information on the 'GINA' bill.
Edit: corrected the vote info from a previous vote.