A bill seeking to codify same-sex marriage would have forced greater GOP accountability ahead of the midterms. But there's been a change of plans. (via MaddowBlog)
than before. “If I wanted to pass that, and I was the majority leader and I wanted to get as many votes as they can possibly get, I’d wait until after the election,” the retiring Missouri lawmaker said.
The result is a gamble: Democrats could hold the vote now, watch it fail, and use it against Republicans in the fall, but the governing majority is so determined to actually get this done that Democratic leaders have reluctantly decided to wait in the hopes that the GOP votes will materialize after the pressures of the election season have subsided.
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