Editing Federal Marriage Amendment (section)

===2005/2006===
On January 24, 2005, Senator Allard introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment, which was the 2004 version of the Federal Marriage Amendment verbatim, with 21 Republican co-sponsors. In 2006, Rep. Musgrave introduced the Marriage Protection Amendment in the House. This version had the same language as the 2004 proposal, except that the word "solely" in the first sentence was replaced by the word "only".<ref name=hjres88>Musgrave, Marilyn, et al. (June 6, 2006) [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.j.res.00088: H.J.RES.88 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081111213948/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.j.res.00088: |date=November 11, 2008 }} [[United States House of Representatives]], [[Library of Congress]]. Retrieved August 19, 2007.</ref><ref name=sjres1>Allard, Wayne, et al. (January 24, 2005) [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SJ00001: S.J.RES.1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112032657/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SJ00001: |date=November 12, 2008 }} [[United States Senate]], [[Library of Congress]]. Retrieved August 19, 2007.</ref>

The bill was designated S.J.Res.1 in the Senate and was immediately referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. On November 9, 2005, the [[United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights|Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights]] approved the bill for consideration by the full Judiciary Committee. On May 18, 2006, the Judiciary Committee reported to the Senate and the bill was placed on the legislative calendar. The motion to proceed to the measure was first made on June 5, 2006. A cloture motion on the motion to proceed was then presented in Senate. On June 6 and 7, the motion to proceed to the measure was again considered in the Senate. On June 7, a [[cloture]] motion to force a direct vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment was defeated in the Senate by a margin of 48 nay votes to 49 yea votes, with the vote mostly following party lines with Democrats opposing and Republicans in favor.<ref name=sjres1/><ref name="2006Cloture">(June 7, 2006) [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00163 U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session - Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S. J. Res. 1] Clerk of the [[United States Senate]]. Retrieved August 18, 2007.</ref> The 49 votes in support of the cloture motion were 11 votes short of the 60-vote [[supermajority]] (three-fifths) needed to end debate and force a vote on the Amendment itself.<ref name=sjres1/> Eight Republican Senators opposed or did not vote; four Democratic Senators favored or did not vote.<ref name="2006Cloture"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13181735|title=Gay marriage ban defeated in Senate vote|date=2006-06-07|work=msnbc.com|access-date=2018-05-29|language=en}}</ref>  The only Senators who changed their position from the 2004 vote to the 2006 vote were Senators [[Judd Gregg]] (R-[[New Hampshire|N.H.]]) and [[Arlen Specter]] (R-[[Pennsylvania|Penn.]]), both of whom voted Yea in 2004 and Nay in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060700929_pf.html|title=Gay Marriage Ban Falls Short of Majority|last=Kellman|first=Laurie|date=June 7, 2006|newspaper=The Washington Post|agency=Associated Press|access-date=July 7, 2009}}</ref>

The bill was designated H.J.Res.88 in the House and was immediately referred to the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House Committee on the Judiciary]]. On July 17, 2006, rules were recommended by the [[United States House Committee on Rules|House Rules Committee]] with regards to debate and voting on the proposed Amendment. The rules were passed on July 18.<ref name=hjres88/><ref name=hres918>(July 18, 2006) [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.RES.918: H.RES.918 Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 88)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925205438/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.RES.918: |date=September 25, 2014 }} [[United States House Committee on Rules|House Rules Committee]]. [[United States House of Representatives]]. Retrieved September 1, 2007.</ref> The resolution was immediately considered. Passage of the proposed Amendment failed 236 yea votes to 187 nay votes, where 290 yea votes (two-thirds) are required for passage. The motion to reconsider was immediately [[Table (verb)|laid on the table]] and agreed to without objection.<ref name=hjres88/> Twenty-seven Republican Representatives opposed the FMA; thirty-four Democrats voted in favor of the FMA and one Independent voted against the FMA in the vote on July 18, 2006, in the House.<ref>Clerk of the House. (July 18, 2007) [http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll378.xml Final Vote Results For Roll Call 378] [[U.S. House of Representatives]]. Retrieved August 22, 2007.</ref>