Another would be to attach it, as the House of Representatives has done, to the National Defense Authorization Act. When we received the National Defense Authorization act as passed by the House of Representatives last week, the The Senate refused to bring up even the Senate committee processed version [of the National Defense Authorization Act]. They refused to give what we call front end cloture or cloture on the motion to proceed. See this, Mr. President, illustrates the problem that I'm pointing to. (40:10–40:16)
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