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Detail for 2006 House Roll Call Vote 378

Vote Date
18-Jul-2006
Yeas : Nays
236 : 187

Our Congress Position Report shows how every member voted during this vote.

Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:

American Civil Liberties Union

Federal Marriage Amendment.

The House of Representatives, failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment that would have prevented states from allowing same-sex couples to marry and deprived them and their children of protections extended to other Americans. This group opposed this measure because it would discriminate against same-sex couples and their children and use an amendment to the United States Constitution to restrict, rather than expand, freedom.

Family Research Council

Marriage Protection Amendment.

Sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the Marriage Protection Amendment (H.J.Res. 88) would have amended the United States Constitution and defined marriage as between one man and one woman. The House failed to agree to the Amendment.

American Conservative Union

Same-Sex Marriage Ban.

The House failed to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as consisting only of the union of a man and a woman.

Americans for Democratic Action

H J Res 88. Constitutional Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage.

Passage of a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment (requiring a 2/3 majority of those present and voting, here 282) to define marriage as consisting only of the union of a man and a woman, and prohibiting courts from construing the U.S. Constitution or any state's constitution to require that marriage or any other constructs of marriage be conferred to any other union.

American Association of University Women

Federal Marriage Amendment.

The House defeated the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the U.S. Constitution. Introduced by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the amendment sought to define marriage as a union of man and woman, effectively banning same-sex marriage. The legislation would also have taken away states’ ability to permit same-sex marriage. While this groups members have differing perspectives on the issue of marriage and civil unions among samesex couples, we stand united against the idea of writing discrimination into the Constitution and opposed this legislation.

This group was founded at a time when women across this country were relegated to second-class status and addressing that injustice has been at the heart of its mission ever since. Continued efforts to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment are likely, and this group will oppose measures that seek to abridge the rights of some while elevating the rights of others.

Republican Liberty Caucus (Civil Liberty)

H J RES 88.

Same-Sex Marriage Ban Constitutional Amendment.

The Human Rights Campaign

Federal Marriage Amendment (H.J. Res. 88).

The Federal Marriage Amendment would enshrine discrimination into the U.S. Constitution by defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman and prohibiting federal and state laws from conferring same-sex couples with marital status and “the legal incidents thereof.” The amendment would thereby endanger civil unions and domestic partnership benefits.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.

On Passage. The House failed to agree to H.J. Res. 88, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage after ordering the previous question.

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