Originally Posted by Jose313

For all those confused the reason Durbin re-introduced the bill under a new bill number was so that Reid could use a procedure known as Rule 14 which allows the majority leader to skip the committee votes and bring it straight to the floor. Many insiders believe that the DOD Bill failed because of DADT already being on the bill and the opposition by many GOP members to it. they used DREAM Act as another excuse to not move forward but when the dod bill gets back for a vote after November its expected that the DREAM Act will once again be offered as an amendment with no DADT language .