Senate Republicans Attack Franken’s ‘Partisan’, ‘Daily Kos’ Anti-Rape Amendment

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Senate Republicans, who have been taking heat for fighting an amendment to protect rape victims, are now lashing out at Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) for even proposing the measure in the first place.

In October, Franken introduced an amendment that would deny funding to defense contractors that "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." Franken was inspired by the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a…