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Bob Corker: So it is my understanding--to be able to talk with other Senators who have an interest on the treaty itself and would…

On the recordDecember 19, 2010
So it is my understanding--to be able to talk with other Senators who have an interest on the treaty itself and would like to do some things to strengthen it, it is my understanding that what I just heard was that the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee would be more than willing to accommodate a unanimous consent request to actually offer amendments to the resolution itself, and he knows of no one on their side, at present, who would object to that. So if people wanted to go back and forth between the actual treaty and the resolution itself, they now can do that on the floor?
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee
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Dec 19, 2010

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Corker discusses the possibility of amending a treaty resolution with other Senators.

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