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...despite resounding bipartisan support for the House measure, “only a small part of the House bill is currently included in the [Senate’s] defense department authorization bill,” said Sharra E. Greer, director of law and policy for the Servicemembers’ Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization that coordinates opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...Greer called the student aid exemption “a good piece of a bad law.” She said that independent law schools that do not receive federal research money might be more likely to challenge the Pentagon’s policy once the exemption becomes...
...Greer said the Pentagon had no need to adopt a stricter interpretation of the Solomon Amendment...
However, FAIR cheered one part of Lifland’s opinion, in which the judge suggested that the Pentagon had misinterpreted the Solomon Amendment. But if the provision currently before the Senate becomes law, Greer said, that section of Lifland’s opinion might become moot...
...Senate bill “ends the discussions about whether the [Pentagon] regulations are authorized by the [Solomon] statute,” Greer said...