This legislation, today, that we passed, and the President will sign, will ensure that for federal purposes, if you are married, lawfully, any state in the country, every other state must recognize that.
David Cicilline explains the implications of the Respect for Marriage Act for federal recognition of marriages.
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We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had additional ways to hold war criminals…
To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.
more than that, they brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.
the United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012
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