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Politico: Where the DADT Votes Stand


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A Politico.com article is offering the latest tally on where the votes stand in the Senate Armes Serves Committee in advance of Thursday's vote on the White House-backed deal to repeal "don't ask, don't tell."

Democrats Evan Bayh of Indiana and Bill Nelson of Florida are voting yes on repeal. Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia are voting no. Holding out? Democrats Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

With this latest tally, the bill stands “within one vote of approval” by the committee. Brown and Webb, who had previously said they were undecided on repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” have said they would prefer to make a decision after the Department of Defense study is complete.

Read the full article here.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: CountryBoy
    Date posted: 5/26/2010 9:26:24 AM
    Hometown: MO

    Comment:

    VOTE THE SPINELESS BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE!!!!

  • Name: Alan A. Katz
    Date posted: 5/26/2010 3:54:17 AM
    Hometown: Johnson City, NY

    Comment:

    This is absolutely baffling. The politicians are running for cover, from the President on down, on DADT. Why? There's an article in this very issue of The Advocate that claims 80% of Americans are in favor of Gays serving openly in the military. So what - the damned politicians can't even make a decision to do what's right, even when 80% of Americans agree with it???? I guess this explains why they do such a lousy job on the hard stuff.

  • Name: Michael @ LeonardMatlovich.com
    Date posted: 5/25/2010 11:32:46 PM
    Hometown: San Francisco

    Comment:

    EARTH TO DAVE: They don't NEED "DADT" to keep discharging gays. Over a 100,000 were discharged under their old ban "policy" before anyone ever HEARD of DADT. And NOTHING in this bill prevents them from going back to that, and NOTHING in Gates and Obama's history indicates they WON'T. What part of CHARADE don't you understand?

  • Name: dave
    Date posted: 5/25/2010 11:12:54 PM
    Hometown: austin

    Comment:

    Based on the wording I've seen for the bill once the president, Gates, and Mullen sign a document stating that repeal would not impact combat readiness then DADT is repealed and no future administrations would not be able to over rule that without congress passing legislation reenacting DADT. However what the bill does not do is establish an explicit nondiscrimination clause the formulation of it leaves open to the Joint Chiefs although I think the wording is such that the bill does require that the military establish a policy.

  • Name: mike
    Date posted: 5/25/2010 7:17:20 PM
    Hometown: chicago

    Comment:

    It's completely hollow; an empty gesture; an attempt to get us to shut up. If anti-discrimination language is not included in this so-called "law" I really don't understand what this will accomplish short of allowing Obama to say "look what I got passed."

  • Name: James
    Date posted: 5/25/2010 7:01:25 PM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    Perhaps Secretary Gates' approval of the legislation will move one of the on-the-fence Senators to vote yea. Still, I'm not convinced this bill is really "repeal". If the Pentagon will have ultimate authority to continue or remove the policy, won't a future administration be able to reinstitute DADT without another vote in Congress?



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