House Speaker pledges to hold vote to end military ban in 2010

The U.S. House will vote on a measure to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tel" law before the end of 2010, according to the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In the Senate, however, a repeal measure is "still short of some critical votes" on the panel's Armed Services Committee, said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.