Servicemembers United: “Mr. President, Either Your Administration is With Us or It’s Against Us!”

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Servicemembers United, the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, today called on the Obama administration to publicly and consistently declare that the defense authorization bill, complete with the DADT repeal provision, is an administration priority for the post-election legislative session of Congress.

“President Obama and his spokesman have had several opportunities to publicly declare the administration’s set of priorities for the lame duck session of Congress. Unfortunately, completing the defense authorization bill has not been included among those priorities,” said Alexander Nicholson, Executive Director of Servicemembers United. “These omissions stand in stark contrast to what the President and his staff are saying elsewhere. Mr. President, either your administration is with us or its against us, and a mediocre level of public advocacy from your White House is not standing with us.”

Congress reconvenes for the post-election legislative session the week of November 15th, and Servicemembers United has led a public education campaign around the nuanced requirements for getting the National Defense Authorization Act passed during this session. As previously noted, the key to accomplishing this goal will be 1) getting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring the bill back up under reasonable procedural conditions before the Senate’s Thanksgiving recess and 2) getting the White House to be publicly and heavily involved in efforts to see this happen during that period.

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Servicemembers United, a non-profit and non-partisan organization, is the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans and their allies. Based in Washington, DC, Servicemembers United actively engages in education and advocacy on issues affecting the gay military, veteran, and defense community.

http://servicemembersunited.org/?p=3274

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