The Senate won't vote on protecting same-sex marriage until after the midterm elections. Bipartisan negotiators had hoped for a vote as soon as Monday but faced trouble lining up 10 Republicans to break a filibuster.
A bipartisan group of senators trying to pass same-sex marriage protection legislation on Thursday pushed a vote until after the election, a move they say increases their chances of success but avoids forcing the GOP on record before the midterms.
The move to delay the vote came as a surprise to some Democrats who believed Schumer might give Baldwin and her partners more time without putting a vote off until after the election. But Baldwin, Schumer and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have all emphasized they’d rather have a successful result than a failed vote that might help Democrats politically but set back their effort to codify same-sex marriage.
The senators did not release the legislative text of their amendment after seeming to finalize the language on Wednesday. A source familiar with the effort said the group is continuing to discuss the legislative changes. Tillis, Collins, Sinema and Baldwin all met with Schumer briefly on Thursday. Baldwin and Sinema appeared to be leaving no stone unturned in their quest for votes in the meantime, hanging out on Thursday on the GOP side of the aisle after drafting the latest version of the bill.
Before Baldwin’s announcement, Sen. Susan Collins had told reporters that she and a handful of other senators had finished their work hashing out changes designed to clarify religious freedom safeguards. The House-passed version of the bill, without any such clarifications added, won 47 Republican votes in July.
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