By a 62-37 vote, senators decided to end debate on the "Respect for Marriage Act" Wednesday afternoon, moving the bill toward final approval with the support of 12 Republicans and all Democrats.
The 12 included Sen. Roy Blunt
...A Missouri political oligarch. As a member of Congress he was reelected six times without significant opposition. He married Roseann Ray in May 1967 and had three children with her: Matt (the former Governor of Missouri), Amy Blunt Mosby and Andrew Blunt, both lawyers and lobbyists. Blunt and Ray divorced after 35 years of marriage. Afterward, he married Abigail Perlman, a lobbyist for Kraft Foods. In April 2006, he and his wife adopted an 18-month old boy from Russia, whom they renamed Alexander Charles
CharlieBlunt. He will be either a politician or a lobbyist or both when he grows up. (R-Mo.); Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis(R-N.C.); Sen. Shelley Capito (R-WV); Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine); Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY); Sens. Lisa
Daddy, can I be a senator?Murkowski
... representing K Street ...
and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska); Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio); Sen. Willard
MittRomney, aka
Pierre Delecto
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...(R-Utah); and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)