Dems To Move Against Don't Ask Don't Tell

Massachusetts Rep. Marty Meehan, the incoming chair of the House Armed Services Committee, says he will hold hearings early in 2007 on the 13 year old Don't Ask Don't Tell policy that bars gays from the military. He plans to introduce a bill that would repeal the policy, as reported in the Boston Globe, pointing out that the policy is harmful to the military, .