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cjgl-2710	of the United States, The Supreme Court	Brief of 172 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 40 U.S. Senators as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent Edith Schlain Windsor, Urging Affirmance on the Merits	2015	52	.pdf	application/pdf	12331	675	63	In fact, Congress deliberately chose to forgo any examination of how DOMA would affect the many federal laws that take marital status into account, the families that it hurts, or the federal gov- ernment's long history of respecting the significant variability in state marriage laws for purposes of federal law. Variations in state marriage laws, and corresponding inconsisten- cies in eligibility for marriage-based federal benefits, were certainly not new in 1996.	cache/cjgl-2710.pdf	txt/cjgl-2710.txt