Levin: Senate likely to repeal Don’t Ask

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Levin: Senate likely to repeal Don’t Ask
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jun 28, 2010 15:21:33 EDT

Any effort to kill a Senate Armed Services Committee-passed measure that would repeal the ban on open military service by gays probably won’t succeed, the committee’s chairman said Monday.

“I don’t see the Senate removing that, to put it mildly,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., following a meeting with defense reporters. “I just think that there will be support for it.”

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee’s ranking Republican, has said that the measure could face a filibuster — “without a doubt” — when it reaches the Senate floor as part of the full 2011 authorization bill.

Levin acknowledged that a multi-day filibuster could affect the Senate calendar but doesn’t think McCain could get the votes to keep the full defense authorization bill from coming to the floor “just because of the presence of that language … and I just don’t think that it would be struck on the floor of the Senate.”

McCain has threatened similar action over the committee’s $1 billion funding cut for the Iraq National Security Forces, Levin said.

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2. What a joke.

Filibustering the fucking DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS bill. That's hilarious. It's like a kid deciding to hold their breath until they get what they want.