Sep. 16, 2022: Same-sex marriage bill will have to wait

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, many Democrats pushed for legislation codifying the right to same-sex marriage, lest it, too, be taken away by the high court. Over the past two months, those efforts gained momentum thanks to the efforts of a small bipartisan group that saw a path to winning support from the requisite 10 Senate Republicans, raising hopes that a bill would soon hit Biden’s desk. Those dreams are now on hold through (at least) the midterms, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the bill’s chief sponsor, told reporters on Thursday. “Earlier in the day, the group of five senators leading talks on the bill recommended to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that a vote occur after the election after several Republicans called for a delay,” writes Burgess Everett. “Democrats had planned to hold a vote as soon as Monday.” There’s a real risk to this approach: If Republicans are able to flip the Senate, there could be little appetite to jump on board and support a Democratic priority during a lame-duck session. Senate reporter Marianne LeVine joins Playbook Daily Briefing to explain how we got here and where the bill might go next. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Pharma
0:02.0	Hey, good morning, Playbookers.
0:04.0	I'm Rogum Winovalin. It's Friday.
0:06.0	A same-sex marriage bill that had been making its way through the Senate looks like it's on pause for now.
0:11.0	Politico's Marianne explains why.
0:14.0	It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.
0:20.0	News came through yesterday that any vote on the same-sex marriage bill that was working its way through the Senate would wait until, at the very least, after the midterms. But it goes, Senate reporter Marianne Levine, is here to talk all about it. Marianne, how's it going? How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm good. So, you know, when I saw this come through, I was actually kind of surprised.
0:42.1	We've mentioned before in Playbook that it sounded like there was some momentum towards some sort of bill happening.
0:48.1	Senator Tammy Baldwin was kind of shepherding it through to find the 10 GOP votes. So my question is, what changed?
0:56.2	It's tricky because there was good reason to think that this was going to have broad bipartisan support in the sense that people saw the House vote and the fact that you had 47 House Republicans support this
1:03.3	legislation. And a lot of that may have just been because so many of them were surprised and because
1:08.4	it moved so fast in the House, but because you had 47
1:11.2	House Republicans, which granted is still a minority of House Republicans, but a much bigger
1:15.2	margin than most people expect on legislation that's coming from the democratically controlled
1:21.6	House, I think the automatic assumption people made on this was, well, there must be votes in
1:26.8	the Senate because
1:27.7	oftentimes the Senate is more bipartisan than the House. The key thing was the negotiators
1:34.6	could never ever get more than three solid Republicans saying yes, that they were definitely going to
1:40.4	vote for this. Lisa Murkowski was widely viewed as someone who was very likely to support it
1:45.0	if it came to the floor. But she also hadn't committed to voting yes for the bill. And that even with
1:50.9	Murkowski's vote, that's still six more Republicans that the group was trying to get. And they clearly
1:57.3	couldn't get those commitments before when Leader Schumer was expected to schedule the vote.
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