Pelosi vows to end ‘Don’t ask, don't tell’ by the end of the year

Dan82 · May 21, 2010

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/98833-vow-to-end-dont-ask-by-new-year

The Pentagon’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will be nothing but a memory by year’s end, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared Wednesday.

Pelosi, in an interview with The Hill, stopped short of laying all of her strategic cards on the table. She wouldn’t say whether the House will take the lead on the issue or predict when the Clinton administration-era tenet would be repealed.

But she made it clear ending “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is at the top of her agenda.

“I don’t have any doubt that ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ will be a memory by the end of this year,” she said.

However, the prospects for a law banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or identity — another pillar of the gay-rights platform — are somewhat dimmer...
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Phoenix · May 21, 2010

Lol sure she will.

Just Adam · May 21, 2010

love to see how this works

RaRa · May 21, 2010

Actions speak louder than words.

olides84 · May 21, 2010

Hey, give her some credit. She was the one who basically carried health care reform to the finish, even when Obama and almost everyone else was ready to compromise and gut it. Pelosi is the most powerful woman EVER in the US government. And if Obama and Biden got assassinated, guess who would become president? And she does represent San Francisco, so she won't just flippantly promise things like this to the gay community IMO.

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