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To: Hojczyk

Why did Cruz vote for giving away their Treaty power?

Pray America is waking


23 posted on 09/02/2015 9:12:25 AM PDT by bray (Trump and Cruz to the White House)
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To: bray

It’s not a treaty, but rather, an administrative agreement. See here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/03/10/treaties-vs-executive-agreements-when-does-congress-get-a-vote/

A number of Senators tried to amend the Corker bill, including an amendment that would have changed it to a treaty. It failed.


54 posted on 09/02/2015 10:41:41 AM PDT by Rolling Joe
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