Conservatives in Congress including Mike Pence back in the day made stopping marriage equality a key plank —press conferences, floor speeches, press releases, bills filed and cosponsored.
It's been years I think since I've seen anyone in Congress even mention the issue.
Many Republicans have shifted to opposing transgender participation in girls' sports, etc.
And the Senate could take up the Equality Act soon.
This is the Senate Roll Call vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to S.J. 1, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
Among the 48 voting no:
Joe Biden. Susan Collins. John McCain.
Roll call vote was in June 2006, as Republicans were making a push to keep the Congress. That same summer Bill Frist held a hike in the $5.15/hour minimum wage hostage to an estate tax cut; the war in Iraq wasn't going well; Katrina aftermath was ugly.
Dems swept the midterms.
Two other issues - marijuana legalization and interracial marriage, have also seen soaring approval in recent decades.
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The pizzas have arrived in the Senate basement where the bipartisan gang of 10 senators are trying to hash out infrastructure Plan B after Capito talks failed.
This could mean a long night.
5 Pizzas from We The Pizza.
Nothing happens without the people sitting in this basement office eating We The Pizza.
You can’t do reconciliation without the 5 Dems.
Need an agreement plus at least 5 more Rs to reach any bipartisan deal.
McConnell today says he hopes for deal with Biden of "maybe" $1T but wants it "fully paid for" and suggests redirecting aid Biden already sent to states in his COVID package...
There’s potentially a $100B difference in taxes Jeff Bezos and his estate would pay under GOP tax proposal and the Biden tax proposal.
The biggest difference is most Senate Republicans have proposed to completely eliminate the 45% estate tax on net worth larger than ~$11 million. Bezos’ net worth is estimated at about $188 billion.
Biden has also proposed eliminating the 100% tax break on capital gains at death. The lost step-up on basis would potentially tax Bezos’ estate more than any other person, because his wealth is largely a never-taxed, unrealized cap gain on Amazon stock.