Good question...

..from Laura Conaway at Maddow Blog...

If, after years of debate and two votes for repeal in the House and the waste of $1.3 billion in taxpayer money and 13,000 service members and full support from the Pentagon, the Senate musters the votes needed to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell but somehow can't find the time to do it, then how on earth are they going to call themselves a serious legislative body?