Arms control and the 105th Congress
The first major arms control test expected in the 105th Congress will be the Clinton administration`s renewed effort to win Senate approval of the CWC, negotiated during the Reagan and Bush administrations and signed just before President Bush left office in January 1993. The Clinton administration missed an opportunity in 1994 to get the treaty ratified while Democrats retained control of the Senate. In September 1996, just before the Senate was scheduled to vote on the convention, the administration was forced to withdraw the CWC from Senate consideration after Bob Dole came out in opposition to the treaty as negotiated. Dole`s position followed Lott`s and Kyl`s organizing effort to kill the treaty. In the heat of the presidential race, Republicans simply were not going to split with their candidate and hand President Clinton a significant foreign policy victory.
- OSTI ID:
- 530651
- Journal Information:
- Arms Control Today, Vol. 26, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: Nov-Dec 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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