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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:14 PM
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Senator wins review of 'don't ask, don't tell'

A Senate panel, after prodding by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, will examine the future of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy governing gays in the military.

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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