07/14/2009
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"I'm -- I'm confident that we will get more than 60 votes."
"We have got the time to take up the underlying defense bill, which is very important to our military."
"Yes, I do."
"This is too important, both the defense bill itself to support our military and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, which people agree in our caucus really is the major civil rights legislation befor..."