UPDATE: Senator Ben Nelson will vote for DADT repeal in the Senate Armed Services Committee. Adam Bink at Open Left broke the news late this morning. SLDN's Aubrey Sarvis explained the significance of this development to Greg Sargent:
"We believe Chairman Levin is pretty much there with his vote count," Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, tells me, in a reference to Senator Carl Levin, who chairs the committee.
This appears to bring the amendment much closer to a full floor vote in the Senate, which was anything but certain as of this morning.
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Definitely worth a watch. Excellent analysis followed by an interview with Murphy, the House sponsor of DADT repeal:
