the house in may, and picked up ten more republicans. so this now comes to the senate with some real momentum. and here's the other good news today and i take it to be thrilling as well, olympia snowe, republican of maine, said she will vote on the stand alone of don't ask, don't tell, that means we've got 61 members of the u.s. senate publicly committed to the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. so all that will stop that repeal is a totally unacceptable refusal to bring our measure up in a timely way. we've got to get this done. we can get it done. it's an injustice. it's time for it to go. >> having all those republicans sign measures saying that they're not going to do anything until the tax cut deal is done? >> yeah. so the tax cut -- actually, the tax cut is of course passed the senate, now today. the republicans who signed that letter said they wouldn't take