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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Senate DOMA Hearing Scheduled for Next Week
By Andrew Harmon
US Capitol x390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
The first Senate hearing on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage
Act will be held July 20, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy
announced Tuesday. A witness list for the hearing has yet to be finalized.
The hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act, one first announced last week,
is subtitled, “Assessing the Impact of DOMA on American Families.”
“Until DOMA’s enactment, the federal government had always honored
marriages celebrated in the states,” Freedom to Marry national campaign
director Marc Solomon said in a Tuesday statement. “It’s time for Congress
to end this gay exception and allow legally married same-sex couples access
to the tools and security available to all other couples to build a life
together and protect their families.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee's Tuesday update on the hearing:
UPDATE [Tuesday, July 12]: The hearing entitled “S.598, The Respect for
Marriage Act: Assessing the Impact of DOMA on American Families” has been
scheduled for Wednesday, July 20, at 10:00 a.m. in room 226 of the Dirksen
Senate Office Building. The hearing will be webcast LIVE online. Witnesses
will be announced in the coming days. |
