A Senate panel, after prodding by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, will examine the future of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy governing gays in the military.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed to a hearing on the issue after Gillibrand dropped her push for an 18-month moratorium on discharging service members under the policy.
At a meeting with Hearst editors at Hearst Tower, Gillibrand said the hearing - the first Senate review of the policy since it took effect in 1993 - would take place in September.
She called the regulation, which bars openly gay members from serving in the U.S. armed forces, "a very ineffective policy for our military."
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