The Senate will delay a vote on legislation enshrining marriage equality into federal law until after the November elections, members said Thursday.
The Senate will delay a vote on legislation enshrining marriage equality into federal law until after the November elections, members said Thursday, a move GOP negotiators believe will spur more support for the proposal from their Republican colleagues who are seeking religious liberty protections.
The Senate negotiators — Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Republicans Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio and Thom Tillis of North Carolina — said they're"confident" the bill will garner the bipartisan support needed for its passage when it is brought to the Senate floor for a vote., which rescinded the constitutional right to an abortion.
"Because Leader Schumer's main objective is to pass this important legislation, he will adhere to the bipartisan group of senators' request to delay floor action, and he is 100 percent committed to holding a vote on the legislation this year before Justice Thomas has a chance to make good on his threat to overturn Obergefell," Justin Goodman, Schumer's spokesman said in a statement, referencing Obergefell v.
Collins told reporters Thursday she believes they're in"very good shape" on the legislation and expects it to pass. "If you do it after the election, it's clearly not something that you're doing just for a political purpose," Blunt said."And I think people will think about it more thoughtfully because of that, and a handful of them [are] likely to decide to be somewhere after the election that they wouldn't have been with a vote that was purely at least likely a political ploy."