Update at 4:45 p.m. ET  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there will be a vote Wednesday on a new bill to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.  Pelosi sent out word on her Twitter account saying the House will vote on a new measure that seeks to overturn the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military.  Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., earlier today introduced a stand-alone bill to reverse the policy, as an effort to jumpstart the process. Repeal is currently stuck in a Senate bill that would authorize Pentagon programs -- and the Senate has been unable to break a logjam.  President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have urged Congress to implement repeal of the policy before the courts do.  The Senate has been unable to get the 60 votes needed on a procedural move to get past a filibuster led by Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee. If the Senate can get the votes on the procedural move, it will take a simple majority or 51 votes to overturn "don't ask, don't tell."  Murphy, an Army veteran who served in Baghdad, sponsored the original provision to repeal the policy that is in the House's version of the defense authorization bill. Murphy noted that foreign countries such as Israel and Great Britain allow their gay troops to serve openly.  "I'm insulted by those who claim that our troops are somehow less professional or mission-capable than the troops of foreign nations," Murphy said.  Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, also introduced a stand-alone bill that would repeal the policy after the Senate failed to move forward last week on the Pentagon measure. Republicans have been blocking bills in the Senate in order to consider a measure on tax cuts first.  See photos of: John McCain  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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