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Dick Lugar: “I remind people, the Senate approved by a vote of 93 to 6, and the Moscow Treaty, which was approved, 95 to nothing.”

On the recordApril 28, 2010
I remind people, the Senate approved by a vote of 93 to 6, and the Moscow Treaty, which was approved, 95 to nothing.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar highlights past bipartisan support for arms control treaties.

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