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Dick Lugar: “Senator Harry Reid, now the Democratic majority leader, did not find it convenient to take up the treaty.”

On the recordMay 22, 2012
Senator Harry Reid, now the Democratic majority leader, did not find it convenient to take up the treaty.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Lugar notes Reid's decision not to advance the Law of the Sea treaty.

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