Senator wins review of 'don't ask, don't tell'

[redqueen]

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed to a hearing on the issue after Gillibrand dropped her push for an 18-month moratorium on discharging service members under the policy.

At a meeting with Hearst editors at Hearst Tower, Gillibrand said the hearing - the first Senate review of the policy since it took effect in 1993 - would take place in September.

She called the regulation, which bars openly gay members from serving in the U.S. armed forces, "a very ineffective policy for our military."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/28/MNRJ18VSSS.DTL

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[TheWraith]

1. Kicked and recommended. nt

[Toasterlad]

2. More Paper-Shuffling. More Empty Gestures.

This so-called "hearing" doesn't even have any pending legislation behind it. And they still only agreed to hold it AFTER Gillibrand dropped the moratorium request.

No leadership from Obama. Hostile reactions from Congress. There's no way this ends positively for gay people.

NO MONEY FOR DEMOCRATS UNTIL REAL CHANGE IS ENACTED.