House of Representatives Defeats Gay Marriage Amendment
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The US House of Representatives today solidly defeated the Marriage Protection Amendment, formerly the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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Gay marriage in Massachusetts withstood a challenge on Thursday when lawmakers beat back a four-year effort by social conservatives to ban same-sex unions in the only U.S. state where they are legal.
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Canadian MPs reject a proposal by the governing Conservative party to overturn a law allowing gay marriage.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to  pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President  Bush to ban gay marriage.
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Leaders of the largest group for gay  men and lesbians in the Republican Party voted overwhelmingly  against endorsing President Bush for re-election because he  favors a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,  The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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Federal courts would be barred from striking the words &quot;under God&quot; from the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag under a bill passed on Thursday by a House of Representatives split largely along party lines.
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Spouses don't belong on campaign payrolls, the House says, voting to end a practice that has benefited some members of Congress for years.
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Washington, DC, Oct. 01  - A majority of representatives in the US House voted on Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed
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Bill would strip federal courts of right to hear cases about the wording, including &#39;under God.&#39;. WASHINGTON -- The US House voted Thursday to strip the Supreme Court and lower federal courts of their power
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The House passed legislation Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 -- A state appeals court ruled Thursday that California's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians, a critical defeat to a movement hungry for a win after high courts in New York and Washington state upheld similar bans.
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Supporters of the bill were unable to convert a single House Republican who voted against the bill last month.
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WASHINGTON - The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.    The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled...
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In a victory for President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday defeated a Democratic bid to temporarily extend an expiring spy law instead of replacing it with a new measure that also would immunize telephone companies from lawsuits.
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(Washington) The US House of Representatives began debate Thursday afternoon of a proposed amendment to the Constitution to bar same-sex marriage with a vote expected later today.
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The 227-186 roll call Thursday by which the House defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Supporters of the amendment fell 49 votes short of the 276 votes they need to advance the bill.