account that I believe is the one in the Bible, that God created the world in seven days." Women's rights In March 2013, McMorris Rodgers did not support the continuation of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, but sponsored a "watered-down" alternative bill. Ultimately, her bill failed, and the House adopted the Senate version of the bill. Broadband In 2021, McMorris Rodgers introduced legislation to prohibit municipalities from building their own broadband networks. Immigration McMorris Rodgers voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020. McMorris Rodgers voted against Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158) which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Big tech In July 2021, McMorris Rodgers introduced draft legislation that would allow users of Big Tech platforms to sue companies if they think the companies censored speech protected by the First Amendment. Electoral history Personal life Cathy McMorris married Brian Rodgers on August 5, 2006, in San Diego. Brian Rodgers is a retired Navy commander and a Spokane native. He is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, and the son of David H. Rodgers, the mayor of Spokane from 1967 to 1977. In February 2007, she changed her name to Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Having long resided in Stevens County–first Colville, then Deer Park–she now lives in Spokane. In April 2007, McMorris Rodgers became the first member of Congress in more than a decade to give birth while in office, with the birth of Cole Rodgers. The couple later announced that their child had been diagnosed with Down syndrome. A second child, Grace, was born in December 2010, and a third, Brynn Catherine, in November 2013. According to the Official Congressional Directory, she is a member of Grace Evangelical Free Church in Colville. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers official U.S. House website Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Congress |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1969 births Living people 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century evangelicals Christians from Oregon Christians from Washington (state) American evangelicals Female members of the United States House of Representatives Members of the Evangelical Free Church of America Republican Party members of the Washington House of Representatives Pensacola Christian College alumni