>> in tv news we say the phrase is hurry up and wait. >> yeah. >> whenever you get somebody in. is it the reverse, wait and hurry up? they were the ones that were delaying this. >> john kerry said that he delayed the vote 13 times at republican requests. they had 20 hearings on this. though answered more than 1,000 senate questions on this. they've been debating this for six or seven days at some point. by the weekend, in the sixth or seventh day of debate, republican senators were up there and the time they were fighting for debating it, talking about pictures of their grandchildren and what was going on with their holiday fam plans with their family. and they tried it as a means to kill it. >> but the picture came out of kinko's looking good, it was big and really big. when you consider the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and the tax cut deal, the extension of unemployment benefits and the food safety bill and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, we're seeing a major push to the end of the