Report: Olympia Snowe Ready To Vote For Cloture On DADT Repeal
If this report is true, you can count on the military’s ban on openly gay servicemembers to be repealed by the end of this year, barring no major complications. CNN is reporting Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) will vote for cloture on Saturday, bringing the total number of pro-repeal votes over the magic 60 mark — even without the waffling Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), who voted to move repeal to a full vote last week but is so far unwilling to say he’d do it again.
In addition to Snowe, Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME), Scott Brown (MA) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) have committed to voting for cloture on the standalone DADT repeal bill passed by the House this week. With their votes added to the vast majority of Democratic caucus (minus Joe Manchin [D-WV] and maybe Conrad), the total vote for repeal is now above the 60 vote mark needed to deny opponents of repeal the chance to filibuster.
Could be ANOTHER win for the President despite all the bullshit from John McCain….
I’m glad that the moderate Republicans are working with the President…
And that the just vote “NO’ stuff doesn’t apply to everyone in the GOP…..
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