The motion is adopted.

Outgoing speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had reason to be excited this week.

She notched a big huge historic win in a lame duck session of Congress no less.

The respect for marriage act takes key steps to uphold marriage equality under federal law.

This is what we're celebrating.

But not everyone's excited.

The bill's biggest sponsor in the Senate told us the legislation is humble.

The respect for marriage act is actually a pretty humble piece of legislation.

An activist we spoke to said maybe marriage has been sucking the oxygen out of the room

for like a few decades now.

I would be pushing for essentially a different sort of a bill that would recognize the

multiple ways in which people create family structures right in our culture.

All that more ahead on today's explained.

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