Defending DOMA is getting expensive - $1.5M so far

The Democrats issued a report about how much John Boehner has spent defending DOMA. There's a $1.5M cap. Now that the case is likely to head to the Supreme Court, the bills will start to escalate -  Supreme Court hearings are very expensive. Anyway, they released an XLS, which I downloaded from a hopefully trustworthy source (HuffPo), and have reformatted to make it readable in Excel and (perhaps?) on this blog...

DOMA LEGAL BILLS
FY 2011
April 25-May 31		$147,491.00
June 1-July 31		$358,736.58
Aug. 1-Sept. 30		$195,977.99
Total FY 2011		$702,205.57
FY 2012
Oct. 1-Jan. 31		$246,157.38
Feb. 1-May 31		$234,345.42
June 1-30		$96,051.01
July 1-Aug 15		$169,237.35
Total FY 2012		$745,791.16
TOTAL BILLED		$1,447,996.73
Current as of 10/9/12
Source: Committee on House Administration Democrats

Try as I might (and in the time I took - half a cup of coffee's worth), I couldn't do much better than that. Sorry.

But you can see that the House Republicans have spent almost $1.5M defending a law that is basically indefensible. They've got $52 thousand left in that kitty; after that, I don't know if they need another appropriation of not (probably not - John Boehner and the House GOP seem to be winging this one). The GOP should adopt a new logo: "Equality for Most Everyone". It'll go well with their "Who gives a toss about American workers? We don't!"

Carolyn Ann