Respect For Marriage Act To Become Federal Law
therainbowtimesmass.comThe U.S. Senate bill Now Goes to the House of Representatives To Approve The Senate-Amended Version In a 61-36 vote the United States Senate today passed the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA), the most comprehensive piece of national legislation that will codify marriage equality into federal law.
Bill H.R. 8404 will now go back to the House of Representatives before going to President Biden’s desk to sign into law.“With today’s bipartisan Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, the United States is on the brink of reaffirming a fundamental truth: love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love,” said President Joseph R.
Biden who is expected to sign the bill into law once approved in its final passage by the House of Representatives.President Biden congratulated the bipartisan work that culminated in what is to be a sigh of relief for many LGBTQIA+ couples who have even considered moving or traveling to other parts of the country to safeguard the right to marry.“Importantly, the Senate’s passage of the Respect for Marriage Act is a bipartisan achievement,” said the President. “I’m grateful to the determined Members of Congress — especially Senators Baldwin, Collins, Portman, Sinema, Tillis, and Feinstein — whose leadership has underscored that Republicans and Democrats together support the essential right of LGBTQI+ and interracial couples to marry.
