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take place. so when you say amendments, what, other folks want to insert amendments into this bill? what kind of amendments? itted c can be open and that what she is demanding, any republican could offer an amendment, really on anything. you would expect republican opponent it s this debate is going on on the floor, one of the key amendments would be to strike out the don t ask, don t tell repeal from the defense bill. but it could be a host of things having to do with don t ask don t tell or anything zblels so, paul, this just sounds like basically kind of the back room deal making. well, it does, if i had any hair left i d be tearing it out. this is senator collins position as i understand it. this defense authorization bill has been worked on by the senate since february 23rd. that s when the senate darttar working on, that collins serves on. 22 subcommittee hearings on the bill, two full days of markup where they actually write the bill, thousands and thousands of hours by s

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and now at the 11th hour she says, it s just not enough. it s really, it s got to now, harry reid i think being very gracious, he has 58 senators, the republicans only have 42, but he s going to let them have two-thirds of the amendments. ten amendments for their side, only five amendments for reid s side. and what collins is trying to do, apparently is drag this out so that forcing an instant vote on this tax package, which isn t even in legislative language on, puts more on the deficit without a second thought. you ve got to sort of question what the heck is going on. nancy, how do you see what senator collins is doing? well, first of all, just to maybe correct the record or at least register a counterperspective to whether the tax bill matters from a timing standpoint, the burden of proof is on who s pushing don t ask, don t tell, something that could be taken up at any point and bringing it up when we re fighting two wars is a bit much. it s only happening because it s a lame

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last several minutes. within with the hour, secretary gates traveling overseas, no comment from the pentagon yet about all of this, but earlier this week, secretary gates, in fact, made some very unusual comments about this. it was a vote that he wanted and yet, he appeared to downplay some of it, staying might not even happen. have a listen. not particularly optimistic that they are going to get this done. i would hope that they would. the reason is in october, i don t know whether the memos reached you or not in october, we d district court judge in california that basically overturned the don t ask, don t tell law and required the military worldwide to comply immediately. secretary gates talking to troops in the persian gulf wanting this and said maybe there won t won t be time in the congress a lot of people in the pentagon raised eyebrows at that

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will vote for the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. so why you might ask is she holding out on even bring the bill to the floor to start debating? she wants to get her way on procedure. on how much time to allow for debate. how many amendments each side would get. and when the vote would take place. the hope among repeal supporters was she d give in by tonight s vote. the fear was that she wouldn t. the vote would fail, so it s been postponed. but sources now tell us she appears to be coming around. late tonight she issued this statement, quote, senator joe lieberman and i continue to negotiate in good faith with the majority leader to try and come up with a fair process under which the important defense authorization bill could be considered in the limited time remaining in the session. without a fair process, the motion to proceed to the bill would like loi fail in the u.s. senate. she wants it after the tax deal struck monday. she claims that that issue could be dispensed of within a

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