year s bill includes pay raises for our troops, funding for equipment to protect them from roadside bombs and medical care and other benefits for them and their families. it would be extremely unfortunate if descrements disagreements over the detainee provisions prevented us from passing this bill and fulfilling those duties. the senate expected to take a full vote on this bill later today. we ll keep you updated. egyptians today are casting votes in their very first election since the ouster of long time leader hosni mubarek. greg palkot, streaming live to us from cairo. reporter: megyn, polls are set to close in less than an hour, those hours extended by two hours of heavy demand, big turn yowvment we re told there is going to be 60 percent, way up from the last parliamentary election where it was 10-15 percent. that was backed up to us on the ground when we went to one polling station earlier today.
this policy statement late yesterday saying it objects to the detainee provisions because of, quote, serious legal and policy concerns. the senior democrat on senate intelligence is siding with the administration, defending terror suspects to military custody in every virtually every case is outside the scope of congressional authority. i view the detention provisions of this bill as really pernicious, as an attack on the executive power of the president and contrary to the be interests of this nation. and so i rise to express my strong opposition to these three detention provisions in the defense authorization bill. reporter: there s no question, bill, this may all come to a head very quickly because we re talking about the defense department s entire budget being held up because of this one issue. bill: and that would be significant. we ll see. catherine, thank you the cath catherine herridge in washington. what s coming up heather?