Dick Lugar: “Please get back to us with the plan, because that will be important.”

as we all now know, the Senate will vote today on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The United States has long been a leader in its treatment of those with disabilities. Becoming a party to the convention would…

Like Indiana this year in the drought.

Yes, I do share that problem very much.

the chairman of our committee, the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, has expressed the case well and strongly. Let me say in simplicity that as we enjoyed hearing of the rights of persons with disabilities, we have learned that…