House will vote to repeal 'Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ this Wednesday

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House will vote to repeal 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' this Wednesday

Mojority Leader Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy
(D-Pa.) introduced a stand alone bill today in the U.S. House of
Representatives that would repeal the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced via twitter that the House would vote
on the bill tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th. Her message stated, "The
House will vote on Rep. Patrick Murphy's standalone #DADT repeal bill
tomorrow – Senate action on #DADT is long overdue."

The new bill is a House version of the one that was offered last week
in the Senate after the Senate failed to debate the Defense
Authorization bill for the second time this year. The House is rushing
to vote on the new bill in hopes that the Senate will be forced to
vote on it during the lame-duck session.

The lame-duck session is quickly coming to an end, and the Senate will
need to act quickly or risk missing the only opportunity to end the
discriminatory law via Congress in the near future. If the Senate
fails to repeal 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' this year, gay rights activists
will be turning to Obama yet again. If Obama doesn't sign an Executive
Order to cease the discharges of LGBT military personnel, the
community will most likely turn their eyes towards the Federal court
case, which ruled 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' unconstitutional earlier this
year.

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