Thread: Republican Objects to Russia Telling U.S. to Leave Arms-Redu

NO START TREATY!!!!!! Wake up America



Republican Objects to Russia Telling U.S. to Leave Arms-Reduction Treaty Alone

Tuesday, December 21, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough

Inhofe

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) responds on the Senate floor Monday to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement to the effect that the New START treaty now being debated by the U.S. Senate “cannot be reopened.â€

This man will do anything to destroy our Sovereignty ....Wake Up America

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President Obama Pushing for Passage of START Treaty by Year’s End
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
By Fred Lucas

President Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell

President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, after signing the $858 billion tax deal into law in a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama has been working the phones to try to secure Senate ratification of a nuclear missile reduction treaty with Russia in the lame-duck session of Congress, and he is not concerned about growing Republican opposition to the treaty, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

The two top Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Jon Kyl of Arizona, are leading opposition to the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), contending it sharply reduces the United States’ nuclear arsenal while demanding too little of Russia.

GOP senators have also expressed concerns that START would impair America’s ability to establish a missile defense system.

One argument apparently being disregarded by the White House is that Democrats are trying to push the treaty through with too little debate.

“We were asked over the weekend whether Sen. Kyl’s or Sen. McConnell’s opposition impacted passage,â€