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Pentagon Asks for Repeal of 'DADT'; Most Troops OK With Gays in Service
By David Wood - Politics DailyDefense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday urged the Senate to speedily repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' law banning gays from serving openly in the military, as the Pentagon released a year-long internal study that found repeal would cause only ''limited and isolated'' short-term disruptions to military readiness and esprit. Seventeen years to the day after President Clinton signed into law the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, the Pentagon formally asked that the law be abolished and set out both the rationale and the procedure to implement what would be a broad social change among the ...
'Cash for Caulkers' Program, Infrastructure Bank Proposed
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyRiding on the recent success of the Cash for Clunkers program that gave U.S. consumers an incentive to replace their gas-guzzling cars with fuel-efficient ones, the president is considering a program that would encourage Americans to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. John Doerr, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, proposed creating a Cash for Caulkers program to encourage Americans to improve their homes' efficiency. Doerr made the suggestion at Monday morning's meeting of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB). ...
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