I meant to do a post on this last week, but things got hectic. That said…

There is a great post over on The Clarion-Ledger’s website about the wrong-headed vote of Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker in relation to protecting the rights of women serving overseas.

From Senate: Cochran, Wicker votes wrong:

The Senate passed an amendment Tuesday prohibiting the U.S. Department of Defense from contracting with companies like Halliburton if they require employees to resolve sexual assault, battery and discrimination allegations and other claims through arbitration rather than in courts of law.

Mississippi’s Republican U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker voted against that amendment along with 30 other GOP senators. The Senate voted 68-30 to attach the amendment sponsored by Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota to a larger defense spending bill.

Franken told The Associated Press that he sponsored the measure in response to the case of former KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones, who alleges she was raped by co-workers while in Iraq in 2005. She went public with her story in 2007.

“Contractors are using fine print to deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court,” Franken said during televised debate on the amendment.

The Jackson Free Press also had a great piece on it here.