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U.S. Rep. Don Bacon was the only Republican to oppose a bill to codify Trump’s order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
North Carolina’s representatives in the U.S. House split on whether to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Now the bill must go before the Senate.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would back President Trump and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What we know
The Mexican president had warned the tech company that her country could bring legal action for renaming the gulf.
Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. Washington — The House on Thursday passed a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," which would codify an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office.
The Republican-led House voted Thursday to codify President Donald Trump's Gulf of America executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It passed with a 211 to 206 vote with Rep. Don Bacon as the only Republican to vote against the measure.
Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to amend the name of the body of water, Mexican President Claudia ...
President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico followed through on its threat to sue Google for using Trump's "Gulf of Mexico" alternative on its digital maps.
The legislation was all but certain to die in the Senate, but the move put the Republican-led House on the record supporting President Trump’s nomenclature.
The Republican-led House has passed a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name.