# Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 13 December 2022 President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act. Congress had passed a bipartisan statutory floor for recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages.

## Context

Dobbs sat as the parent political shock. Neighbouring IRA is earlier 2022. He did not sit as House parliamentarian.

Jackson confirmation is neighbouring Court politics. IRA is earlier 2022.

The President of the United States signs enrolled bills and is Commander in Chief. He does not write a Senate roll-call, a CBP sector tally, an IDF campaign, or a CBO score. A signature is not unique authorship of every title Congress enrolled. Drafting and floor votes remain with Congress. An archived [White House](/organizations/white-house) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) is the official carrier for this term; current whitehouse.gov is not this administration. Office-holding is not authorship of every later CPI print, encounter table, or foreign campaign.

## Evidence and sources

United States Congress carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed statutory recognition floor is a dated rights instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 13 December 2022 signature of RFMA, independently reported.

Not established: that he wrote every section, or a unique later household coefficient from that Tuesday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He signed. Courts still interpret. States still administer licenses.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, not a later speech about Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act on 2022-12-13 is not a licence to treat every later United States Congress communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Congress passed. He signed. Courts still interpret. States still administer licenses. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Joe Biden: https://factrail.ai/people/joe-biden

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-respect-for-marriage-act-2022-12-13/
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-biden-rfma-2022