# The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 13 December 2022 President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act. [Vice President Harris](/people/kamala-harris) had been a public whip for Senate passage.

## Context

Bipartisan Senate votes sat. Neighbouring Dobbs is the parent political shock. She did not sit as House parliamentarian.

Dobbs 24 June 2022 is neighbouring. IRA is earlier 2022.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## 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 floor for recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages is a dated rights instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 13 December 2022 signature of RFMA, independently reported, with her public whip role.

Not established: that she 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.

[Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) signed. She whipped and celebrated as VP. Courts still interpret.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support, not a later speech about The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support 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 The Respect for Marriage Act is signed; Harris had whipped Senate support into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Congress passed. Biden signed. She whipped and celebrated as VP. Courts still interpret. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## 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-harris-rfma-2022