Re: The House Votes to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell 250-175! Keep the pressure on the Senate.

for political purposes, of course.

On Dec 15, 6:34 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the course President Obama wants this repeal to take.
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> On 12/15/10, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Bravo!
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> > Perhaps Obama's court challenge will become irrelevant.
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> > On Dec 15, 6:17 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The House Votes to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell 250-175! Keep the
> >> pressure on the Senate. Many of the debate arguments from House
> >> Republicans against repeal were extremely offensive, false, hateful,
> >> and homophobic.
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> >> House votes to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell'
> >> By Ed O'Keefe
> >> House lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday to end the "don't ask, don't
> >> tell" law, giving new momentum to an effort backed by President Obama,
> >> Pentagon leaders and gay rights activists to end the ban on gays
> >> serving openly in the military this year.
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> >> The House voted 250 to 175 to repeal the 17-year Defense Department
> >> law that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in uniform. The
> >> 75-vote margin was wider than a similar vote in May. Fifteen
> >> Republicans voted for the bill while 15 Democrats opposed it.
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> >> Wednesday's vote sends the bill back to the Senate, where a vote will
> >> not occur until next week at the earliest, if at all, according to
> >> Senate aides.
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> >> The bill's language originally appeared in an 800-page defense
> >> authorization bill passed by the House in May. But the bill failed a
> >> procedural vote in the Senate last week, requiring the House to vote
> >> again on a new measure to end the ban.
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> >> Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine)
> >> introduced the new bill last week, believing it will earn broader
> >> Republican support after the Senate completes consideration of the New
> >> START Treaty and government spending.
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> >> Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Wednesday she would join Republican
> >> colleagues Scott Brown (Mass.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) in voting
> >> to end the ban if the Senate votes again on the bill.
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> >> The House voted first on the new bill because its cosponsors, Majority
> >> Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) believed
> >> doing so would allow the Senate to consider it more quickly as a
> >> privileged resolution requiring fewer days of debate.
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> >> "It's time to end a policy of official discrimination that has cost
> >> America the service of some 13,500 men and women who wore our uniform
> >> with honor," Hoyer said Wednesday. "It's time to stop throwing away
> >> their service -- their willingness to die for our country -- because
> >> of who they are."
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> >> Most House Republicans opposed Wednesday's vote. In a conversation
> >> with reporters before the vote, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif), who is
> >> slated to chair the House Armed Services Committee in the next
> >> Congress, said Democrats "were more concerned about 'don't ask don't
> >> tell,' I believe, than about the military and about carrying out our
> >> responsibilities for those who are laying their lives on the line
> >> every day to protect us. That's a bad system."
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> >> In a bit of levity, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) later echoed McKeon's
> >> sentiments on the House floor: "Maybe that's why our approval ratings
> >> are somewhere between used car salesman and embezzler," he said. (A
> >> record low 13 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is
> >> doing, according to a Gallup Poll survey released Wednesday.)
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> >> A new version of the defense bill without language ending "don't ask,
> >> don't tell" is expected to come up for a vote in the House later this
> >> week.
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> >> In a joint statement, gay rights groups pushing to end the ban cheered
> >> Wednesday's vote, saying it "provides another resounding indication
> >> that 'don't ask, don't tell' can and should be repealed legislatively
> >> this year." The groups, ranging from the liberal Center for American
> >> Progress to the pro-gay Log Cabin Republicans, plan to lobby the
> >> Senate this week to vote on the new bill.
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> >> Forty-seven senators are cosponsoring the bill, including Senate
> >> Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). He is not expected to schedule
> >> a vote on it until next week at the earliest, a spokeswoman said.
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> >> More:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/12/house_votes_to_r...
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> >> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> >> Have a great day,
> >> Tommy
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