{"id":188051,"date":"2010-12-22T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/22\/good-news-on-the-legislative-front-today\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:38:00","slug":"good-news-on-the-legislative-front-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/22\/good-news-on-the-legislative-front-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News on the Legislative Front Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-22\/obama-signs-repeal-of-ban-on-gays-in-military-says-law-strengthens-u-s-.html\">repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell was signed into law<\/a>, the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-21\/senate-clears-way-for-ratification-of-u-s-russia-nuclear-weapons-treaty.html\">passed the START arms control treaty<\/a>, and a new food safety bill that gives the FDA the power to order recalls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-21\/senate-clears-way-for-ratification-of-u-s-russia-nuclear-weapons-treaty.html\">passed the house and is heading to the President&#8217;s desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t see any gazillion dimensional chess here, but it&#8217;s a good day.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, since the bill gives the military fairly broad discretion in how the ban is phased in, I would take even money that separations from the military will be continuing into 2012, because Obama won&#8217;t push the military on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell was signed into law, the Senate passed the START arms control treaty, and a new food safety bill that gives the FDA the power to order recalls passed the house and is heading to the President&#8217;s desk. I still don&#8217;t see any gazillion dimensional chess here, but it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,971,998,1012,964,1020,1030,1044,1042,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-control","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-food","category-foreign-relations","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-nuclear-weapons","category-proliferation","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}