Senate committee to discuss gay ban next week
The Senate Armed Services Committee will waste no time launching into hearings next week on the possibility of repealing the ban on open military service by homosexuals.
The committee will devote one hour of questioning to that issue when Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen appear on Capitol Hill to discuss President Obama’s 2011 defense budget proposal.
Discussion of the law that bars open service by homosexuals and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that derives from the law will come at noon Tuesday.
The Senate committee plans additional hearings, but Tuesday’s questioning of Gates and Mullen about whether they support Obama’s initiative to repeal the gay ban and what complications they envision if the law is changed will get the discussions underway.
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