FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 15, 2010
CONTACT: Paul Guequierre | paul.guequierre@hrc.org | 202-423-2860
U.S. House Votes to End “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
House Votes Second Time for Repeal
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted 250-175 on legislation to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). This historic action is the second time the House passed repeal legislation this year. In May the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to which repeal legislation was successfully attached.
“Today the U.S. House of Representatives said, for the second time, what military leaders, the majority of our troops and 80 percent of the American public have been saying all along – the only thing that matters on the battlefield is the ability to do the job,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “We are grateful to Majority Leader Hoyer and Rep. Murphy for championing repeal and for Speaker Pelosi’s continuing leadership. The Senate must now follow their lead.”
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) introduced the free-standing DADT repeal bill yesterday, H.R. 6520. The new bill is identical to the language in Rep. Murphy’s DADT repeal amendment that passed in the House in May. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced the companion bill, S.4023, last week after the failed Senate vote to proceed to debate the National Defense Authorization Act, to which repeal legislation was attached. The Senate bill currently has 48 bipartisan cosponsors.
“Momentum is on the side of ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “The leadership of Rep. Murphy and Majority Leader Hoyer was critical to passage in the House. Now it is up to the Senate to consign this failed and discriminatory law to the dustbin of history.”
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Here is the vote:
H R 2965 YEA-AND-NAY 15-Dec-2010 5:24 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment
BILL TITLE: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010
| Yeas | Nays | PRES | NV | |
| Democratic | 235 | 15 | 5 | |
| Republican | 15 | 160 | 4 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 250 | 175 | | 9 |
| Ackerman Adler (NJ) Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Biggert Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Bono Mack Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Campbell Cao Capps Capuano Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castle Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart, L. Dicks Dingell Djou Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Dreier Driehaus Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Flake Foster Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi | Giffords Gonzalez Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirkpatrick (AZ) Kissell Klein (FL) Kosmas Kratovil Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Markey (CO) Markey (MA) Matheson Matsui McCollum McDermott McGovern McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Minnick Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick | Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Nye Oberstar Obey Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paul Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Peters Pingree (ME) Platts Polis (CO) Pomeroy Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Reichert Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Ros-Lehtinen Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Space Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Teague Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wilson (OH) Wu Yarmuth |
| Aderholt Akin Alexander Austria Bachmann Bachus Barrett (SC) Bartlett Barton (TX) Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Boozman Boren Boustany Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chaffetz Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crenshaw Critz Culberson Davis (AL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Diaz-Balart, M. Duncan Emerson Fallin Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach | Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffith Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Hoekstra Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kline (MN) Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marshall McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Olson | Ortiz Paulsen Pence Peterson Petri Pitts Poe (TX) Posey Price (GA) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Reed Rehberg Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Roskam Ross Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Schock Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Simpson Skelton Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Stearns Stutzman Sullivan Tanner Taylor Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walden Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL) |
| Baird Berry Cardoza | Granger Marchant McCarthy (NY) | McMorris Rodgers Wamp Woolsey |
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