This is what happens when I oversleep
The senate votes to to apologize for its manifest failure in never having passed an anti-lynching bill; as Orcinus notes in the previously-linked entry, it still doesn’t get around to passing one, let alone passing The Hate Crimes Prevention Act, or the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act.
Republicans’ actions directly make lives more miserable for gays and lesbians and their families, all of whom have to deal with the trauma and tragedy that inevitably results from the violence and intimidation that is the essence of hate crimes.
Your tax dollars at work.