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In a 60 Minutes interview to be aired this Sunday, freshman GOP Sen. Scott Brown reveals that he was molested by an adult male camp counselor while a young boy. Brown told interviewer Lesley Stahl that even his mother didn’t know about the abuse. “That’s what happens when you’re a victim. You’re embarrassed. You’re hurt,” he said. Brown said the …

Powerful three-term GOP Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (AZ) is expecting to announce today that he will not seek reelection in 2012. That improves the prospect that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napalitano will win his open seat next year. Polls in the state showed Kyl comfortably ahead of all Democratic challengers, including Napolitano, at this stage of the race. …

First-term Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) announced today that he will not seek reelection in 2012. Webb’s decision, long anticipated by many in Virginia politics, will make his seat more difficult to hold for his party. Ex-Sen. George Allen (R), who lost the seat in 2006 to Webb, is running to win it back, and a handful of other GOP candidates …

The GOP’s “repeal Obamacare” dog-and-pony show hit the wall in the Senate today. The vote was 47-51, right along party lines. Lieberman and Warner were not present. With a Democratic president and Republicans 13 votes short of the 60 votes they would need to break a filibuster in the Senate, the odds of the law being overturned legislatively in the …

“Harry Reid is dangerously close to the 51 votes he needs to pass literally anything he wants through the Senate. That would virtually nullify the gains Republicans made in November! And Joe, the sad fact is that without this rule, the Homosexual Lobby would have already rammed through every last bit of their anti-family legislation: The Homosexual Classrooms Act, the …

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), the frequent bane of both Democrats and Republicans and an unlikely hero in the repeal of DADT, will announce his retirement tomorrow. Lieberman’s long awaited decision means an end to a political career that took from the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate to a speaking role at the 2008 Republican National …

Three-term moderate GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Texas) told supporters today that she will not seek reelection in 2012. Hutchinson was trounced in her 2010 bid to unseat Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Hutchison is one of the Republican Party’s brightest stars, often appearing on political talk shows to press the GOP agenda. Still, she broke ranks during the health care …

Sen. Chuck Grassley has wrapped up his three-year investigation into the fundraising practices of major televangelists. No action will be taken by the government, mostly because the figures being investigated refused to provide financial data. The report by Sen. Chuck Grassley questions the personal use of church-owned airplanes, luxury homes and credit cards by pastors and their families, and a …

“It is a tragic day for our nation when legitimizing sodomy is preferred over the morale and combat-readiness of America’s military. Sadly, those who voted to repeal DADT don’t know that although they won this battle, they have lost the war. The movement to support our Armed Forces is more powerful than ever and will continue to build strength until …

An interesting little tidbit pops up in the final graph of this interview with Dan Choi. “I found a truth throughout this year that I might not have seen when I first started: action and sacrifice speaks much more loudly than the best crafted, eloquent speech.” With that said, Choi offhandedly mentions, “the Libertarian party has asked me to run …

RELATED: Right Wing Watch notes that with a few exceptions such as the above, anti-gay groups have (so far) been “noticeably silent” on the repeal of DADT. So far, we have not heard a peep about the vote from the American Center for Law and Justice, Concerned Women for America, The Eagle Forum, Focus on the Family, the Traditional Values …

Two Republicans switched their “no” cloture votes to “yes” for repeal: Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. John Ensign (R-NV).

UPDATE: The live stream is concluded.

Just in via press release….. Today, the Senate has taken an historic step toward ending a policy that undermines our national security while violating the very ideals that our brave men and women in uniform risk their lives to defend. By ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, no longer will our nation be denied the service of thousands of patriotic Americans …

The big surprise seems to be Sen. Mark Kirk! (Screencap via Towleroad)

The Senate’s cloture vote on the repeal of DADT may come before noon EST. Watch live here.

Last night Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) made a threat to Sen. Harry Reid. What’s happened is it’s poisoning the well on this debate, on something that’s very, very important….I’m just hoping that saner minds will prevail and that these issues that have been brought forth that are absolutely partisan, political, issues, brought forth to basically accommodate activist groups around this …