Barney Frank: “Your kids will be paying for that and they will be saying, 'Hey Dad, why did you guys do that?'”

Yes, I was frankly struck that Mr. Labrador went to such great pains to deny this.

I hope that the committee will.

This is a legislative enactment that essentially says that the fact that I live in a loving committed marriage with another man is somehow a threat to other people's freedom.

Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.