Tammy Baldwin: “We passed a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act.”

“And so one happy story I want to share is the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. In the wake of Dobbs, when it was clear that interracial marriage and same sex marriage were under imminent threat, We passed a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act. It was a bill that basically said, should a future Supreme Court reverse those two cases, Loving and Obergefell, that if you have a valid marriage already entered into or …” (11:58–12:01)

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