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U.S. Senate Debates Federal Marriage Amendment

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with NPR's Eric Niiler about the debate on Capitol Hill over the Federal Marriage Amendment. If passed, it would define marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on the amendment. The measure is unlikely to get the needed two-thirds majority to pass, but promises to be an issue in the run-up to the November elections.

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Eric Niiler
Eric Niiler reports for NPR's national desk. His work can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and other NPR newsmagazines. Before moving to his current post, Niiler was a reporter for NPR's Day to Day program, and also filed pieces for NPR's national and science desks.
Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).