Cheney among 20 honored by Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "Together," Biden said of the recipients, "you embody -- and I mean this from the bottom of my heart -- the central truth: We're a great nation because we're a good people."
54% : Several are prominent advocates who over long careers worked to advance gay rights, women's rights, desegregation and cancer research.
49% : The White House credited her with helping to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, a legislative achievement from Biden's days in the Senate that he has called "one of the most important laws passed by Congress in the last 30 years.
47% : The selection of Cheney, R-Wyo., whose vocal opposition to Donald Trump cost her her political career, was a continuation of his push for bipartisanship and decency in politics at a time when Cheney's own party has turned against her.
44% : Mary L. Bonauto, a prominent gay rights advocate who argued before the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case in which the justices ruled to establish a right to same-sex marriage.

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