The Council of the District of Columbia voted on Tuesday to pass an emergency bill that would allow the district to issue marriage licenses during the government shutdown after Mayor Muriel Bowser backed the legislation.
The Marriage Bureau in the D.C. Superior Court has been closed since the shutdown took effect last week, preventing soon-to-be-wed couples from making their union legal. The court is federally funded, thus ceasing some of its nonessential operations amid the funding lapse.
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