The National Partnership for Women and Families, which had written the FMLA’s first draft, now organized a coalition to promote passage of the act. Founded in 1971 as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership was committed in to ensuring that women and men enjoy same employment opportunities. This partnership led a diverse national coalition of women’s, labor, disability, children’s religious, senior citizens’ groups and even the United States Catholic Conference and American Association for Retired Persons (AARP). These two organizations where able to persuade significant members of Congress to support FMLA. Missouri Senator Chris Bond, who both had a large elderly population in his constituency. On February 4, 1993 the Family
