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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: military ban legislation upcoming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.183352.19650@spdcc.com>
- Organization: insert anything here
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:33:52 GMT
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- According to the paper the morning, it is expected that
- if Clinton is successful in either removing the ban on the military
- or starting a process by which the ban can be removed, that
- legislation will be introduced to Congress which will change the
- existing Executive Order to a legal directive.
-
- It is NOT likely that this will be a singular bill!
- Mor elikely it will be added as an AMENDMENT to another bill
- which has congressional support, thereby making it nearly
- impossible to stop it from being passed. Since there is no
- line-item veto for the President, he would have to veto the
- entire bill to prevent an anti-gay rider.
-
- There are two bills mentioned as being likely targets:
- the Family Leave Act and one other I think having to do with
- medical coverage. Both were bills not expected to be signed by Bush
- but were already promised to be signed by Clinton. Therefore,
- it becomes a choice between breaking a campaign promise to
- the general populace, or to gays in the wake of fierce opposition
- to overturning the current ban. (Gee, I wonder which one he'd do?)
-
- IT is expected that these attachments will be made in the
- near future, probably by Helms (who is notorious for this sort
- of stuff) and is expected to make it through (as they usually do).
-
- BBC
-