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Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 28, 2009 Remarks by the President at the Signing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 East Room 2:42 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Please, everybody be seated. Good afternoon. I have often said that meeting our greatest challenges would require not only changing policies in Washington but changing the way business is done in Washington; that it would require a government that's more efficient and effective and less...

Openly gay Congressman Barney Frank says a gay rights march on Washington this weekend is "a waste of time at best." Representative Frank said Sunday's National Equality March was "an emotional release." But he said directly lobbying representatives and senators would be much a more effective way to achieve change. Frank said the only thing marchers are putting pressure on "is the grass."