A U.S. Senate committee passed a bill that would expand federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation, gender and disability. Many Jewish groups support the legislation. Identical provisions, which received bipartisan support from both houses in last year’s Congress, were stripped out of a bill in its final stages last year.
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