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The Senate added another item to its busy lame-duck schedule after the top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee announced a stripped-down defense authorization bill.
Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), the chairman and ranking member of the panel, said they'd reached an agreement on a defense bill from which controversial provisions — like a repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" — had been removed.
The defense bill only piles onto a jam-packed agenda for the Senate in the final days of the lame-duck Congress. The Senate still has to finish work on a standalone repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell," the DREAM Act and the New START Treaty, the last of which is up for Senate consideration on Thursday.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...me-duck-agenda
More excuses for republicans to filibuster the dream act?
