White House Continues Vow to End Don't Ask, Don't Tell
With a flurry of recent court decisions and resulting stays, the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy will again come to the Senate floor during the lame duck session. Chairman of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has been in talks with several Senate members about provisions in the defense spending authorization bill up for debate next month.

November 15, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- With a flurry of recent court decisions and resulting stays, the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy will again come to the Senate floor during the lame duck session. Chairman of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has been in talks with several Senate members about provisions in the defense spending authorization bill up for debate next month.

The White House has insisted that it supports a repeal of the Clinton-era policy with this defense bill, but Levin has discussed removing the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell as part of the measures to pass this bill.

The election of several incoming Senators, including Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), throw the passage of a repeal into further disarray as they have previously stated that they do not agree with the language of the repeal and would like to receive results of a Pentagon study concerning DADT.

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