Washington - The Senate Wednesday voted 71-26 to approve a historic US-Russia nuclear arms treaty that mandates new reductions in both nations’ deployed strategic nuclear weapons.
Thirteen Republicans joined 56 Democrats and two independents in giving an overwhelming bipartisan endorsement of the pact signed in Prague in April by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
“We have lived up to our moment,” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass.
The Senate vote came as the 111th Congress prepared to adjourn, and capped a productive lame duck session where bipartisan majorities approved legislation to continue Bush-era income tax cuts for two years and overturn the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy toward gays.
The New START treaty was the post-election session’s major foreign policy triumph, one that Obama wanted badly. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were at the Capitol this week to personally push lawmakers, and Obama made his own personal pleas.
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typical maneuver of this administration, got to be done today can't delay don't need to read it or study it. It's a crisis need to move fast or it will be to late. This is how they operate and manfacture what they want. Typical hard sell approach that anyone of us would recognize for what it is! Wonder when cooler heads are gonna prevail!
ReplyDeleteYou are right 8:47. All 71 Democrats in the Senate got thier way again.
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Unlike you I can disagree with members of my own party but don't forget who signs it stupid.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans were very smart in passage of recent lame duck legislation..........they are cooling the party of NO image and the president himself is crossing party lines....................wait and see you aint seen nothing yet.....the party lines are going to get blurrier and blurrier.......that was the whole point of putting this man in office.............he shook up the excepted image and created opposition..............but its all been carefully branded and marketed......both parties know the emperor has no clothes and they are scrambling to lay claims.....just watch we aint seen nothin yet.....it started with Reagan.....these people have crafty handlers
ReplyDeleteThe TEA party grows as the politicians ignore the will of the people !
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