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On the recordMay 22, 2012
Despite the unanimous vote in the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Bill Frist, then the majority leader, declined to bring the Convention up in the Senate.
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Richard Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar discusses the failure to advance the Law of the Sea Convention despite committee support.

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