TOP NEWS | House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill, Brittney Griner Released from Russian Prison, Iran Executes Protester | Dec. 8

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: House passes the Respect for Marriage Act South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem calls for state review of Chinese investments WNBA star Brittney Griner released from Russian prison House passes $847 billion National Defense Authorization Act FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 Iran hangs protester involved in mass demonstrations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jillian Richards, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the daily signal top news for Thursday,
0:06.9	December 8th.
0:07.9	Here are today's headlines.
0:20.9	The House of Representatives passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act 258 to 169 today.
0:28.7	The bill is now headed to President Joe Biden's desk.
0:32.2	It passed the Senate 61-36 last week.
0:36.2	Per the daily signal, every Democrat voted to pass the legislation.
0:40.7	39 Republicans voted for it as well.
0:44.0	Most of these Republicans were among the 47 members who voted yes on the bill in July.
0:49.9	The bill seeks to codify the legalization of same-sex marriage into federal law.
0:55.5	In Congressmen in the House and Senate, introduced religious liberty amendments to protect
1:00.7	those who believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
1:04.5	Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced an amendment in the Senate, but it failed to pass.
1:10.5	Representative Chip Roy of Texas also introduced this amendment in the House.
1:15.0	But the Rules Committee blocked it from going to the House floor on Monday.
1:19.3	Here are some remarks Roy shared in the Monday hearing per Fox News.
1:23.6	If the amendment is unnecessary, then it will fail on the floor of the House and you
1:27.9	have no concern about bouncing it to the Senate.
1:30.0	If the amendment is important and would pass on a bipartisan basis, by the way, it was
1:34.4	a bipartisan amendment in the Senate.
1:37.4	And it was a close vote in the Senate.
1:39.5	It would be important for the people's House to express its will of full protection of
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