What if Russia just takes membership in the World Trade Organization and the Jackson-Vanik legislation off the table and says, 'Thank you very much,' but--why is there any change in the predicament after the Russia's pocket those two situations?
Lugar questions the impact of Russia's WTO membership on U.S. legislation.
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The Commander in Chief, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and individual combatant commanders are asking the Senate to give its advice and consent to the Law of the Sea Convention.
Americans who are involved in the oceans professionally on a daily basis... want this Convention ratified.
Thus, there would not be the creation of the jobs nor the degree of energy independence or the other attributes.
As seven CNOs wrote in a joint letter back in 1998, 'there are no downsides to this treaty--it contains expansive terms, which we use to maintain forward presence and preserve U.S. maritime superiority.'
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