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The Hill: Republicans Set To Pick Up 50 Or More House Seats
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Over the last four weeks, The Hill and pollster Penn Schoen Berland have polled 42 toss-up congressional districts across the country, in an attempt to predict the magnitude of the upcoming election's congressional shakeup. The latest poll foresees a tough election day for the Democrats.
The survey's numbers suggest that Republicans are poised to win more than enough seats to take control away from the Democrats in the House next year. With the party needing to pick up 39 seats for majority control, The Hill's data suggests they are likely to take 50 or more.
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Mullen On DADT: Show Me The Data
Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said today that the Pentagon will continue to enforce the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on non-heterosexuals serving in the military, saying that, while he personally supports the policy's repeal, he still believes Congress should not pass any repeal legislation before a review is completed.
Mullen said the review must include all the "voices" of people affected by the potential repeal and that, once the review is done, he should be the one to "lead" the charge to implement the repeal. Mullen, who fielded questions from reporters and members of the defense community this morning at a breakfast sponsored by The Hill, said that he and other military brass still prefer "to wait until the review was through" before Congress passes the repeal because it's hard to know the impact because the "data that just doesn't exist."
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