Word: vote
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate's recent rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was a huge disappointment to many Americans. The U.S.'s allies and friends responded to this vote with universal shock. I have been besieged by calls from around the globe. All express concern. Some commentators have used the vote to proclaim the death of arms control. But the obituaries are premature...
Unfortunately, as the CTBT vote reflects, the Administration and Congress have not yet agreed on a common post-cold war strategy for responding to these dangers. But the world's leading nation cannot remain divided on how to respond to the world's gravest threats. The Administration and Congress have worked together in the past on such key issues as the Chemical Weapons Convention and NATO enlargement. We must put aside partisan distractions and work together...
...PBHA needs to focus on getting back to its roots," Guerrier said in her candidate speech just before the vote. "With 70 committees, volunteers sometimes don't feel a connection to the organization or each other...
ACSR recommended that Harvard vote in favor of the proposal, but the CCSR followed its precedent and abstained...
...Sometimes there might have been a 'no' vote on a specific proposal, but often that would be because the proposal would be badly worded or premature, presuming the failure of the ongoing coalition effort," he said, referring to a joint effort between the White House and private industry attempting to set up codes of conduct...