Amendment 79: sponsored by Patrick Murphy (PA)
REVISED Would repeal "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" only after: (1) receipt of the recommendations of the Pentagon's Comprehensive Review Working Group on how to implement a repeal of DADT (due December 1, 2010) and (2) a certification by the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and President that repeal is first, consistent with military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion & recruiting, and second, that the DoD has prepared the necessary policies and regulations to implement its repeal. It would also include a 60 day period after certification before the repeal took effect.
Has passed the House by 234 to 194 as of 10:07pm.
Through out the entire day on every single amendment the republicans debated gay rights. Every time they had their five, one, or three minutes they read sadly confused letters, reaching back from dementia to a time the author was not confused. WW II veterans who fought for freedom, whose only public record will be of the saddest letter they ever wrote.
Other things that passes: Department of Defense will evaluation BP.
The intelligence agencies will be subject to review by GAO.
A person in the military who loses material goods when the move will get replacement value, not market value. So if they lose your house's content, you get enough to buy new stuff not as much as you would get in a yard sale.
Shea Porter will require " a penalty for prime contractors that do not provide information to databases on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it adds a reporting requirement. The penalty would withhold award and incentive fee payments."
A good night, overall.
Here is the roll call vote: http://clerk.house.gov/...
There were a couple of usual staunch liberals, like Bright and Bishop who may not have appreciated the comparisons to civil rights.
The Blue Dogs are busy killing unemployment.
Hoyer is wonderful. He uses hate quotes from five decades to show how the rhetoric never changes:
http://www.youtube.com/...
"It is about living out the promise of American equality."