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...Treaty of Versailles would stand as the last important international security pact that the Senate failed to ratify. The streak was broken this past week when, on Oct. 13, majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) led Senate Republicans in a 51-48 vote to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT...
Suddenly, it seems as if every nuclear arms control agreement of the past 30 years is on the table. Days after losing a Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Clinton administration is now trying a new tactic to get Russian approval to revise one of the baseline arms control documents, the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The carrot, according to the New York Times: If the Russians agree not to squawk over plans to create radar-and-interceptor missile defenses in Alaska and North Dakota (a violation of the treaty), the U.S. will help Russia upgrade...
...There are a lot of phony actors in this thing," says Dickerson. "A lot of the Democrats don?t want a soft-money ban any more than the Republicans do. They just want the issue." Especially now that Democrats are now raising just as much soft money as Republicans ?- and it constitutes a bigger portion of their annual fund-raising haul. So here?s a Congress 101 for you: When New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli says...
...Seven years later, however, Clinton has just roasted President Bush?s party as hostages to a "new isolationism," the Senate?s rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty having dealt a serious blow to the very global U.S. leadership that Bush had prized. It was a strange moment, which spoke volumes about the fate of U.S. foreign policy ? and the role in it of the presidency ? in the years since the Cold...
...retaliation, the Pforzheimer House Committee proposed a vote to ban Adams students from eating in their dining hall. The vote failed...