from huffingtonpost: In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration--a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations. This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn't the slam dunk you might expect. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes, all from Republicans.

some vid of Jon Stewart having a field day with it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/jon-stewart-takes-on-30-r_n_321985.html