47 House Republicans Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill: See List

Bill “repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage that is valid under state law.”

QUICK FACTS:

• Forty-seven Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed in a 267–157 vote the Democrat-led “Respect for Marriage Act” (H.R. 8404), codifying same-sex marriage into federal law.
• “Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage that is valid under state law,” bill’s summary reads.
• “The bill also repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin,” the summary adds.

LIST OF REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF CODIFYING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE INTO LAW:

BACKGROUND:

• House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) introduced the bill July 18.
• The bill’s passage comes a month after the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that gave women the right to kill their child through abortion.