Senator Lugar acknowledges a point made during the discussion.
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Americans who are involved in the oceans professionally on a daily basis... want this Convention ratified.
The only way to protect that outside of this is to accede to the treaty.
Mr. Chairman, I join you in welcoming Secretary Clinton, Secretary Panetta, and General Dempsey.
Senator Harry Reid, now the Democratic majority leader, did not find it convenient to take up the treaty.