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Chellie Pingree: “With all due respect, I want to disagree with you on one particular point... that tells people who are gay or lesbian…”

On the recordDecember 15, 2010
With all due respect, I want to disagree with you on one particular point... that tells people who are gay or lesbian that they can no longer serve in the military, for the past 2 years I've heard over and over again, well, this is a flawed process. So as a member of the Armed Services Committee, even though my good colleague Representative Davis held subcommittee hearings on this issue and there has been much discussion of it, people said, well, we need to have a study. So we got a study. It's a big, thick study.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine
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govinfo.gov
Dec 15, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker addresses the issue of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the discussions surrounding its repeal.

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