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To: Carry_Okie

“No offense, but I get really tired of this false assertion. A treaty can be legally ratified with as few as 34 Senators because the Constitution specifies “two thirds of Senators present,” not two thirds of the full Senate.”
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Yes, quite true technically. And if Pigs had wings, hollow bones and carried minimal weight, they just might be able to fly.

However, the odds of only 52 Senators being present to vote on something of the importance of the LOST treaty are EXTREMELY and VANISHINGLY remote. And, to be honest with you, I don’t have a lot of interest in dealing with quibblers. So you have a good night and I hope you recover soon from the tiredness you’re suffering from dealing with false assertions.


19 posted on 05/09/2012 7:13:33 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides
However, the odds of only 52 Senators being present to vote on something of the importance of the LOST treaty are EXTREMELY and VANISHINGLY remote.

The historical record proves this absolutely false. The Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere committed the entire American economy and all its land to the preservation of EVERY species. It was ratified in 1941 by voice vote without record of a quorum and no committee debate.

20 posted on 05/09/2012 7:19:37 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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