John Kerry: “that is amendment No. 334, which extends the period of time that spouses can remain on a base after their spouse has…”

No, that's not acceptable. And I believe it was an algorithm that kicked that out kind of crazily.

There is no current proposal or plan that has been agreed to which would require us to do that.

What we are trying to achieve now is really to establish some stability if we can, in the relationship, without conceding anything.

Hopefully we can get there.