As Mike DeBonis and the folks at DCist have been reporting, the congressional review period on D.C.'s same-sex marriage recognition law ended last night at midnight. What that means is that same-sex marriages performed in other states are now recognized as full-fledged marriages in the nation's capitol.
From what I understand from speaking to congressional staffers on the relevant committees, marriage-equality laws are unlikely to be overturned through the congressional review process. It's possible that Republicans in Congress will turn to the D.C. Appropriations Bill currently being marked up in the House as an opportunity to try to preempt marriage equality through some kind of DOMA-like rider. For now they seem content to focus on guns as their culture-war issue for this year, but we'll see.
-- A. Serwer
