Gillibrand wins Senate hearing on military policy on gays

Posted on July 28, 2009
Filed Under Uncategorized

New York’s Sen. href=”/topics/Kirsten_Gillibrand”>Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday she had won the commitment of the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold its first hearing this fall on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military.

The announcement is unusual because Gillibrand does not sit on the panel and did not push the issue in the last Congress, when she served on the House Armed Services Committee.

But the agreement by Senate Armed Services chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) capped a campaign Gillibrand has been waging in the last few weeks to scrap or suspend the controversial policy that has led the Pentagon to discharge thousands of gays and lesbians since 1994.

See Gillibrand wins Senate hearing on military policy on gays

* Tags = gay men gay news lesbian news transgender bisexual

Published by 

Published by xFruits

Original source : http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/gillibrand-wi…

Tags: Ads, Aging, Aig, Ali, Amp, Armed Services Committee, Ba, Bia, Bisexual, Blog, Blog Blogspot, Blogger, Blogs, Border, Carl Levin, Congress, Controversial Policy, Coord, Cr, Fal, Fir, Fo, Fr, gay, gay men, Gay New, Gay News, Gays, Gays And Lesbians, Gays In The Military, Gin, google, House Armed Services Committee, Images, Ins, Irs, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ld, Lea, Lead, Leads, Led, Lesb, Lesbi, lesbian, Lesbian News, Lesbians, Levin, Libra, Lt, Map, Military Gays, Military Policy, Mp, Mpa, N News, Nbsp, Newsday, Original Source, Ouse, Pac, Pentagon, Pi, Pos, Pot, Rap, Rea, Rig, Rov, S Committee, Senate, Senate Armed Services, Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Hearing, sex, Shap, Sig, Sin, Sit, Sourc, Span, Spe, Tag, Target, Tent, Tia, Transgender, Url, usa, Verd, Vet, Wh, Wins

Comments

Leave a Reply

Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- josh on Vancouver Gay Basher Appears in Court
- Sara Callow on Google takes stand against California’s proposition 8
- Kathryn Gilleran on PFLAG: Submit your questions for Q&A with Kathy Gilleran
- telstar on David Archuleta Has a Crush…on Someone
- ARCHIE_ROCKS on David Archuleta Has a Crush…on Someone

Gay Blogads