Patrick Leahy actually said...

"In this increasingly interdependent world, the United States simply cannot afford to have our partners at the negotiating table question our commitment to the rule of law."

"If we fail to honor our consular obligations at home, American citizens, including your constituents, pay the price overseas."

"the Constitution, Federal laws, and treaties to be treated as 'the supreme Law of the Land.'"

"The treaty power should not be, and cannot be, an exception to these fundamental constitutional principles of dual sovereignty and separation of powers."