Post Politics Now House passes measure that would codify same-sex marriage into law with bipartisan support

The Senate voted 64-to-34 to open debate on approving $52 billion in funding for domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research, even as questions remain about what else lawmakers on both sides of the aisle plan to add to the legislation.

The vote revives the long-stalled legislation, which has bipartisan support but has been stuck in congressional wrangling. The money would be used to incentivize construction of domestic factories to produce semiconductors, also known as computer chips, which have been in such short supply globally that automakers and other chip users have had to idle production for weeks at a time.

Can you cover the Senate Rules Committee hearing on the DISCLOSE Act? — asks reader Diane from Northern Virginia.

On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee held a hearing to discuss the DISCLOSE Act — a measure introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that would require that organizations who spend money on elections to disclose donors who have given $10,000 or more during an election cycle. This includes super PACs and 501(c)(4) groups — groups colloquially known as “dark money” organizations.

The House passed a measure Tuesday with bipartisan support that would federally protect same-sex marriages.

While the moment illustrated how broadly the country’s perspective on marriage equality has changed in recent years, 157 Republicans still stood against the measure, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). Forty-seven Republicans voted in support.

Still, House members rejoiced as the bill passed.

As The Post’s Marianna Sotomayor reports, top House Republicans, including Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.), the National Republican Congressional Committee chair, were among those who voted in support, a signal that party leaders believe marriage equality is settled law.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed South Carolina Judge Michelle Childs to a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court by a bipartisan vote of 64-34.

Childs was among those in the running to fill a Supreme Court seat following Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement, but President Biden eventually named now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nation’s highest court.

In remarks on the Senate floor ahead of the vote on Childs’s nomination, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) noted that Childs would be “only the fourth” Black woman to ever sit on the D.C. Circuit, which was founded nearly 130 years ago.

The House on Tuesday passed a measure meant to protect marriage equality in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that struck down Roe v. Wade.

The measure passed in a bipartisan vote of 267-157. Forty-seven Republicans voted in favor.

The move comes after Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, wrote that the high court should also examine previous rulings that legalized the right for married couples to buy and use contraception without government restriction (Griswold v. Connecticut), same-sex relationships (Lawrence v. Texas) and marriage equality (Obergefell v. Hodges).

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that Democrats will accept Sen. Joe Manchin III’s (D-W.Va.) offer on drug prescription prices and Affordable Care Act subsidies and move forward with a small reconciliation bill.

“Democrats are moving ahead with the provision to lower prescription drug prices,” Schumer said Tuesday, noting that Senate leaders will be meeting with the Senate parliamentarian Thursday for the “bipartisan birdbath on this provision.”

Schumer said Democrats are “excited” to push forward with the provision, which he said is something for which the party’s been waiting for a long time.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, during a hearing on the Biden administration’s infrastructure work, noted that some electric vehicles are as affordable as gas-powered cars, after the GOP criticized him for urging Americans to buy the greener vehicle option.

Buttigieg, during an interview last week with radio host Big Boy, said the Biden administration is advocating for “cutting the cost of electric vehicles,” noting that the initial cost is holding back some consumers. But he added that the savings on gasoline are another factor.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden will not declare a climate emergency on Wednesday.

Biden had been expected to declare the climate crisis an emergency during a visit to a shuttered power plant in Massachusetts on Wednesday.

The president will deliver remarks on “tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean-energy future,” according to a White House statement. Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday that the president would, however, not announce any emergencies during that visit.