Posted on Advocate.com December 01, 2010
Plan B for DADT?
By Kerry Eleveld

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/01/Plan_B_for_DADT/

Even as "don't ask, don't tell" repeal advocates scramble to line up the votes to beat a GOP filibuster of the National Defense Authorization Act, whispers of trying to attach a repeal measure to another piece of legislation are beginning to circulate.

Advocates as well as the White House still prefer to pass repeal as part of the defense funding bill, but questions continue to arise around whether the legislation will even get to the floor for a vote given GOP opposition and a dwindling calendar.

"If that bill is not going to move, the question is, What vehicle will move in the lame-duck session?" Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, told reporters during a Tuesday briefing. "The concern that many and I have is that time is running out."