While President Obama and most Democrats in Congress have voiced their support for repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy on gays in the military, a few Senate Democrats are leaving open the option of voting against repeal. Senator Jim Webb of Virginia said Wednesday that members should examine the Pentagon’s DADT report, which is set to be released on December 1, before making a decision. “That was something of a frustration for me when they voted it out of full committee,” Webb told me outside a Democratic policy luncheon today at the Capitol. “I was the one Democrat who voted not to move forward until we had the study.”

“I think people need to separate the politics out of it,” Webb continued. In September, Webb voted against a filibuster of the defense authorization bill–to which the repeal of DADT was attached–but it’s not clear how Webb would vote if DADT repeal were brought to the floor as a stand-alone bill.