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Defend America on Sunday, July 05, 2009 3:22:05 PM
US-Russian Arms Negotiators "Under the Gun," Might Temporarily Bypass Senate Ratification for Treaty
July 05, 2009 1:51 PM
MOSCOW
-- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before
the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on
December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the
difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s
constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects
of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until
the Senate ratifies the treaty.
"The most ideal situation would be to finish it in time that it
could be submitted to the Senate so that it can be ratified," said
White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and
Arms Control Gary Samore. "If we're not able to do that, we'll have to
look at arrangements to continue some of the inspection provisions,
keep them enforced in a provisional basis, while the Senate considers
the treaty."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/us-russian-arms-negotiators-under-the-gun-might-temporarily-bypass-senate-ratification-for-treaty.html