On the recordMarch 9, 2015
If the Senator will yield for another question, in the history of the Senate to date, back to the 1940s when Senator Vandenberg from Michigan joined in a bipartisan effort on foreign policy as one of the hallmark events in the history of this great body, and for decades when we served in the Senate, kind of the stock phrase was that politics ends at the water's edge when the President is representing the United States overseas. We can argue and use our constitutional powers to argue back and forth, but we want to give the President the authority to try to protect and defend this country. Can the Senator from Nevada, who is a student of history, recall any other time when a group of Senators--a partisan group of Senators-- reached out to a party in negotiations with the United States directly, as this letter has done?
