Newsday: Gillibrand insists Senate will pass military justice bill next week
Newsday reports:
New York’s Democratic junior Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has 53 senators
publicly supporting her bill to fundamentally revamp the military
justice system in response to sexual assaults among service members –
but that’s seven shy of the 60 she needs to break a filibuster.But at a news conference she staged today, Gillibrand insisted that
next week, when she expects the Senate to vote on her bill, she’ll
either have persuaded opponents to drop the filibuster of her Military
Justice Improvement Act or she’ll have found the 60 necessary votes.“If this vote is filibustered we will get the 60 votes we need,” she declared.
