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To: Vaquero

treaties only need Senate approval I thought... and only 51 votes


51 posted on 04/16/2009 7:13:40 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

2/3


54 posted on 04/16/2009 7:17:58 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: GeronL
I refer you to USC Art II Sec 2:

{the POTUS} shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;

56 posted on 04/16/2009 7:18:42 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism,and Destroyer of Capitalism)
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