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This time, President Clinton may not even snatch defeat from the jaws of humiliation. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott indicated late Monday that Senate Republicans would postpone Tuesday's vote on the nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but only if the President lets the matter lie for the duration of his term. And National Security Council Adviser Sandy Berger told the New York Times the administration could live with the condition that it scrap the treaty, which had been designated among the foreign policy priorities of Clinton's second term. In the end, the White House found Capitol Hill simply unwilling...
...Without anything close to the two-thirds majority required to pass the treaty, Clinton wrote Lott on Monday that "proceeding to a vote under these circumstances would severely harm the national security of the United States, damage our relationship with our allies, and undermine our historic leadership over 40 years, through administrations Republican and Democratic, in reducing the nuclear threat." But postponing the vote won't avert that danger. Whether the Senate votes or decides to table the motion is irrelevant to the governments of such newly nuclear states as India and Pakistan. What matters is that...
...Clinton signed it in 1996, held up by Senate Republicans led by Jesse Helms who have some legitimate concerns about how compliance with the treaty can be verified and are also just a little suspicious of internationally imposed restrictions on the U.S. military. After three years of stalling, Trent Lott, sensing a political opportunity, suddenly reversed course last week and scheduled a vote for Tuesday. Faced with a vote it couldn't win, the White House played for time. On Sunday the troops went out to the talk shows to make the case for postponing even longer. "What we have...
...delay tax credits which support people in the workforce and which have consistently been shown to encourage work rather than welfare. It is more saddening that this move would come at the same time that other money is being spent for wealthier, more powerful constituencies: Senate majority leader Trent Lott is currently attempting to secure $500 million for an extra aircraft carrier to be built in his home state of Mississippi, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) has just passed an amendment to save the oil industry $66 million a year in royalties owed to the public...
With India and Pakistan testing nukes and China stealing secrets, should the U.S. tie its own hands on nuclear weapons? That was exactly how Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was hoping the question would be posed when he rushed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to a vote in the Senate last week. And with both sides conceding the treaty lacked the votes to pass, senators were negotiating Wednesday to reschedule next Tuesday's vote. "The White House was confident that given a normal legislative process with weeks of hearings and plenty of advance warning, it could muster the votes...