Secretary of State Hillary ClintonIt's odd, given how few voters care about the subject, but it looks like President Obama's first major legislative battle since the midterm elections is going to be over a strategic arms-reduction treaty with Russia. Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona declared Tuesday that a vote on New START, as it's called, wouldn't take place during the lame duck session"”a statement that many interpreted as the treaty's death knell.By law, it takes two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes, to ratify a treaty. Obama would have...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/18/obama_going_to_war_over_a_nuclear_treaty_246009.html
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