Tag Archives: Senate

AIDS funding: caught in the crossfire of the FY 12 budget battle

Before it left on spring recess, the U.S. House passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2012 that the president called "wrong for America" and that AIDS activists have said would do "irreparable harm."

Shooting prompts calls for a more civil Congress

The 112th Congress went barreling into all-out partisan warfare, as expected, in its opening week, and then the unexpected took over. A man gunned down a member of Congress in broad daylight.

2010: The perfect alignment and the quiet costs

The suspense is over: The U.S. Senate finally took a vote on a bill to repeal the ban on openly gay people in the military and passed it, 65 to 31. Having Congress pass that bill, to repeal Don’t Ask

Historic Senate vote: Congress repeals 17-year-old ban on gays in military

The U.S. Senate approved a bill Saturday, December 18, to repeal the 17-year-old law banning openly gay people from serving in the military. The roll call vote on the measure, which came to the Senate Wednesday from the House, was

Third DADT lawsuit filed; SLDN threatens more

Activists pushing for repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell delivered on a threat Monday and filed a third lawsuit aimed at having the courts strike the military’s ban on openly gay people.

Senate fails to bring DADT repeal to the floor

Thu. Dec. 9 - 4:10 p.m.—The Senate has just rejected an attempt to bring the defense authorization bill to the floor, effectively killing the prospects for repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell this year, and likely for years to come. The

Frank: “Zero chance” of pro-gay bills in 2011

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) stated the obvious Monday: “There’s zero chance” of any pro-LGBT legislation passing in the new Congress.

Prospects for DADT repeal turn on Dec. 1 report

Four days after President Obama said there will be enough time, "potentially," to repeal "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" during the lame-duck Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that he is "not sure" what the prospects are for repealing it

9th Circuit: DADT stay continues

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday granted the government’s request to permanently delay enforcement of a lower court order to stop enforcement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).

White House has meeting, no action, on DADT

The topic in an office building adjacent to the White House Tuesday afternoon was Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the federal law banning openly gay people from the military. More specifically, it was how to help a lame-duck Senate pass the