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Joe Biden: “It's an election year. Look, I mean, we have already passed a law saying that -- and the Defense of Marriage Act…”

On the recordJune 4, 2006
It's an election year. Look, I mean, we have already passed a law saying that -- and the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage between a man and a woman. No one has challenged it. It's a federal law. And now we're talking about a constitutional amendment.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden comments on the political motivations behind the renewed discussion of same-sex marriage amendments in an election year.

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