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Harry Reid: “We hope shortly after the caucuses are ended today that we will have a vote on final passage of the Defense…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2012
We hope shortly after the caucuses are ended today that we will have a vote on final passage of the Defense authorization bill. The managers have a few more amendments they are going to try to clear, but I think very quickly after the caucus we will have a vote. ``Very quickly'' around here is kind of a relative term, but we hope to do it as soon as we can.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Dec 4, 2012

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