5 Bills Democrats Want to Ram Through Congress in Lame-Duck Session

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The legislation has significant implications for religious freedom.
56% :DACA was originally enacted in 2012 under President Barack Obama by executive fiat -- the "pen and phone" presidency at work.
43% : With some Republican help, Democrats in the Senate passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and orders the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages.
37% : Congressional Democrats are seeking to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which would provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. when they were children.
29% : Here's how Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, described the Nadler initiative to double down on DACA:Nadler's plan is not only to codify DACA, which has about 600,000 enrollees, but also to extend that amnesty to an estimated 4.4 million illegal aliens.
28% : The Biden administration is looking to drastically increase federal spending through a massive omnibus bill during the lame-duck period.
21% : "I'm glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said on CNN.

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