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Issue Position: LGBT Issues

Issue Position

Issues: Conservative Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Marriage

As the most junior member of the House Armed Services Committee in 1993, Jane told Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is unconstitutional. She is an original cosponsor of legislation to repeal the flawed policy.

She was one of only 67 votes against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, a co-Chair of the "No on 8" campaign in 2008, and has urged that Congress file an amicus curiae petition in the Supreme Court to overturn the ban on gay marriage.


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