The repeal effort of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" provisions targeting GLBT soldiers, as we all know by now, was successful at the end of the last Congress, with the backing of President Obama.
On the 7th of July 2011 during debate on HR 2219 The Department of Defense Appropriations bill Virginia Foxx(R-NC) offered amendment 41 to HR 2219 designed to prevent funds in the appropriations bill from being spent on GLBT spouses in contravention to the Defense of Marriage Act.
And to remind readers: This is the same Virginia Foxx who on the floor of the House denounced those (including Mathew's mother Judy who was watching the debate in the gallery at the time of Foxx speech) who claimed that Mathew Shepard was a victim of a hate crime. Foxx asserted Mathew Shepard was merely the victim of a random mugging and the fact he was strung up on a barbed wire fence to die was unfortunate, but no hate crime.
The Foxx Amendment passed 248 - 175 with 8 not voting.
Republicans supported it 229 - 6 with 4 not voting.
Democrats opposed the Foxx Amendment 19 -169 with 4 not voting.
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