[JuntMonkey]

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"The last-minute confrontation is pitting the House's most powerful member against Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.), who has said he will not add extraneous measures to the annual defense authorization bill unless they can garner unanimous support from Democrats and Republicans alike."

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possible stupid question... if they can garner unanimous supoprt from Democrats and Repulicans alike why would they even need to attach it to the DoD bill? Couldn't they just spend 3 seconds of floor time to pass whatever stuff on its own?

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nobody wants to take a shot at this?

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Yes, Frist originally wanted to pass the bill itself by unanimous consent, and that is still a possibility. At this point that seems pretty unlikely though.