The House of Representatives passed legislation largely along party lines Thursday morning that would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Every House Democrat that voted opposed the legislation sponsored by Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Gulf of America Act. The bill is the fifth executive order House passed to codify one of President Donald Trump’s second term executive orders, in only 109 days.

Republican Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon, a moderate lawmaker representing a battleground House district who is mulling retirement, was the lone Republican lawmaker to vote against the bill. He referred to the legislation as “sophomoric” while speaking with reporters.

“The United States is bigger and better than this,” Bacon told Fox News Digital.

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