Reply #23: That was more a proposal being floated around than a concrete plan. [View All]

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The evidence for Frank's statement is that ever since the State of the Union address and the military hearings that followed soon afterward, there has been nothing from the administration about how Congress is to proceed: nothing about a repeal, nothing about a moratorium. They seem to be waiting until the end of the military's review to act (the military leadership's preference), which is after this year, meaning a substantial delay (at best) in a DADT repeal: long past this summer.

Obviously Obama cannot repeal DADT himself, and I don't doubt that if Congress passed a repeal, he would sign it. But he has a large role in setting the Congressional agenda, and it's unlikely that Congress will act without some encouragement from the President.