Senate Refuses Debate on Controversial Treaty
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:07 PM
By: Ken Timmerman

The Bush administration is headed for another collision with its conservative base that bears all the hallmarks of the immigration debacle, where legislation that would have granted amnesty to illegal aliens bitterly divided the Republican party and ultimately went down in flames this past June.

This time the subject is a controversial international treaty that few Americans have ever heard of until now.

Officially known as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, opponents are referring to it more simply as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST.

What’s got them most riled up is the fact that neither the Bush White House, nor the Treaty’s supporters in the United States Senate, appear willing to have a forthright, honest, and full debate.

“They’re trying to ram this thing through in the dead of night,â€