From The Pansy Party Capitulation Of The Day Department:

From the AP via Wood TV 8 (Sigmund Freud, call your office*):

In a retreat, House Republicans decided Wednesday to drop a provision in next year's defense spending bill that would have limited the role of women in combat zones.

Under pressure from the Pentagon and lawmakers of both parties, Representative Duncan Hunter of California, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, planned to offer an amendment allowing the services to open or close any jobs to women 60 days after notifying Congress of their plans. The House was debating the defense measure on Wednesday.

Hunter's amendment would replace a provision that would have required the Pentagon to get congressional approval to open additional jobs in combat zones to women. It also would have enacted into law a 1994 Pentagon policy that bans female troops from working in units below brigade level whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground.
(Thanks to WND)

I know there must be a couple dozen of these every day, but finding and posting them would be too depressing.

*Yes, it would actually be funny if it was Cigar TV 8, but I work with what I have and hope for the best.