DADT Repeal Bill Passes House 250-175

Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweets that the stand-alone DADT repeal bill has passed the U.S. House of Representatives 250-175.

Additionally, Senator Joe Lieberman, the author of S. 4023, the stand-alone bill to repeal DADT in the Senate, tweets that Senator Olympia Snowe has agreed to vote for DADT repeal. Currently S. 4023 has 44 co-sponsors, and one other Republican, the other Senator from Maine, Susan Collins.