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House leaders vote to intervene in DOMA defense
Members of the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) voted to
intervene in ongoing court action against the same-sex marriage law on
Wednesday afternoon.
In a party-line vote of 3-2, the five-member BLAG composed of House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(R-Va.), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Democrats
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), gave the
House general counsel the authority to retain outside counsel to defend the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
The action was taken little over two weeks after the administration
announced that DOMA was "unconstitutional" and that it would not defend
the law that has been on the books for 16 years.
Members of the BLAG met for nearly 30 minutes in Speaker Boehner's
Capitol Hill office suite to discuss the matter, Hoyer told reporters
following the meeting.
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