AUGUSTA — The Maine House will register its first votes today on a same-sex marriage bill, whose prospects appear good given heavy co-sponsorship by members and momentum from last week's Senate vote in favor of the measure.
The bill, which won a 21-14 vote of approval in the Senate on Thursday, has 64 co-sponsors, 55 of them representatives. Sponsorship is overwhelmingly Democratic, the majority party in both chambers. There are 95 Democrats in the 151-member House.
"With 50-plus co-sponsors, we feel cautiously optimistic it will be a very good vote," said Shenna Bellows of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, a leading supporter of the bill.
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