The Colorado Independent

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Posts Tagged pentagon

With Congress gridlocked on climate legislation, environmental groups forge ahead

By | 09.24.10 | 7:43 am

Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s decades-long ties to oil and to reform energy policy more generally?

Gates sharply limits ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By | 03.25.10 | 9:54 am

In a major victory for opponents of the military’s ban on open homosexual service, Defense Secretary Robert Gates significantly revised how the Pentagon will implement the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, effectively making it difficult to remove a soldier, sailor, airman or marine who does not out himself or herself as gay.

Udall co-sponsors bill to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By | 03.03.10 | 12:00 pm

Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall joined with Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman and eleven co-sponsors to introduce legislation this morning to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bans lesbian, gay and bisexual service members from…

Udall urges Pentagon to speed the repeal of “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell”

By | 02.02.10 | 3:32 pm

In the wake of a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing today on the “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell” military policy that forces gay service members to remain closeted, Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall pressed for more urgent action to effect a repeal.