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Senate opponents would have to come up with a supermajority to delete repeal from the measure.
Over in that chamber, the 60-vote filibuster barrier could be turned back onto opponents as the minimum they would need to strike repeal from the defense bill.
"It's nice to have an ally in the commissioner," said Marc Ratner, the vice president for regulatory affairs for Zuffa, the company that owns the U.F.C. Ratner, who assigned Lathan to judge bouts in Nevada when he was executive director of the state's athletic commission, said he knew she favored repeal "from our discussions" before she became the commissioner in 2008.
Others, like Kerry Eleveld, editor of EqualityMatters.org, a new Web site, say Mr. Obama appears to be evaluating the politics of gay rights issues differently since the positive response to the don't ask, don't tell repeal from people on the political left, many of whom have criticized him over issues like health care, climate change and immigration.
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In some states, legislators are getting pushback against repeal from contractors who have been paying prevailing wage and don't want it to disappear.
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(Route 31-A was decommissioned at that point, and repealed from state law in 1992.
Research by Victorian historians showed that the original 1215 charter had concerned the medieval relationship between the monarch and the barons, rather than the rights of ordinary people, but the charter remained a powerful, iconic document, even after almost all of its content was repealed from the statute books in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In a particularly cynical move, Mr. Boehner and his new team have exempted the repeal bill from their own rule that any increase in spending be offset by cuts in other programs.
It seems odd, then, to be, in this case, more Catholic than the Pope or more Stevensian than Stevens but the argument for repeal, apart from being implausible, also seems unnecessary.
The Senate then moved on to the military legislation, engaging in an emotional back and forth over the merits of the measure as advocates for repeal watched from galleries crowded with people interested in the fate of both the military and immigration measures.
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