{"id":162,"date":"2011-09-15T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:17:02","slug":"gop-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-postpone-repeal-of-don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/gop-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-postpone-repeal-of-don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Makes Last Ditch Effort To Postpone Repeal Of Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2011\/09\/15\/319715\/gop-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-postpone-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz039.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a last ditch effort to prolong Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who chairs the Military Personnel subcommittee, have written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Pannetta asking the Pentagon to postpone the scheduled repeal of the ban against open gay and lesbian service, set for Tuesday, Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The pair argues that the government\u2019s decision to certify the end of the policy on July 22 was \u201cinaccurate\u201d because the House has \u201cnot received copies of the revised regulations and a summary of all the specific policy changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2011\/09\/15\/319715\/gop-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-postpone-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/\">GOP Makes Last Ditch Effort To Postpone Repeal Of Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In a last ditch effort to prolong Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who chairs the Military Personnel subcommittee, have written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Pannetta asking the Pentagon to postpone the scheduled repeal of the ban against open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,17],"tags":[64,66,65,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}