{"id":13505,"date":"2010-12-18T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/12\/18\/13505.html"},"modified":"2010-12-18T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:51:50","slug":"senate-votes-to-repeal-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/12\/18\/senate-votes-to-repeal-dadt\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to repeal DADT!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US Senate has just voted, 65 to 31, to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/12\/18\/13503.html\">previous entry<\/a>, it's not over yet; it'll be months before the repeal is final.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a huge and wonderful step.<\/p>\n<p>I'm especially pleased to see that two more Republican senators joined the vote to repeal: Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. John Ensign (R-NV).<\/p>\n<p>No credit, though, to Democratic senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who&mdash;after weeks of saying he wasn't sure, and that he thought it would probably get repealed soon but he hadn't had a chance to decide how to vote yet&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/12\/18\/manchin_chooses_family_party_over_the_nations_busi\/\">skipped today's vote in favor of a family holiday party<\/a>. Manchin was the <em>only<\/em> Democratic senator who did not vote yes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00279\">on the cloture vote earlier<\/a> and on the final vote just now.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn't realized that the Senate website provided a full list of who voted how on each vote; seems obvious in retrospect, but I hadn't seen it before. Apparently results are published about an hour after the vote, so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00281\">DADT repeal roll call<\/a> isn't up yet, but presumably will be soon.<\/p>\n<p>(<strike>Weirdly, the page for the cloture vote claims to be about the SBIR\/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2009, &ldquo;A bill to amend the Small Business Act.&rdquo; But it's not really about that act; it's about the cloture vote on the DADT repeal. I've dropped a note to the Senate webmaster asking them to fix this.<\/strike> Added later: turns out that the House bill was somehow attached\/related\/connected to a small-business act from 2009. I don't understand the ways of our government. Apologies for my confusion, and thanks to Jeff H for explaining.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate has just voted, 65 to 31, to repeal Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell. As noted in my previous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-queer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}