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Tom Coburn: “No, that is the World Heritage preserves. All treaties, all treaties have to have implementing language and also…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
No, that is the World Heritage preserves. All treaties, all treaties have to have implementing language and also appropriations that come from authorizing; that is, if we would look at the Camp David accords, we do not just automatically let the State Department spend what they want to spend on it.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Discussing the requirements for treaties and appropriations during a floor speech.

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