WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2011. Republican leadership of the House of Representatives yesterday moved to intervene in a lawsuit against the federal government brought by 81-year-old Edith “Edie” Windsor for failing to recognize her marriage to her spouse and partner of 44 years, Thea Spyer. Windsor, who legally married Spyer in Canada in 2007, filed the lawsuit after the government imposed a hefty tax on the estate of Spyer, who died in 2009. Windsor would not have…
