The next Republican president needs to kill these previously signed, but never affirmed by the senate treaties.
Importantly, a Republican president and congress has to clean up the law about what presidents can do with treaties, and what they cannot do.
1) In past, presidents have claimed that significant foreign agreements “did not rise to the level of a treaty”, so did not need to be confirmed or even reviewed by the senate. While this *does* apply to really petty stuff, what *exactly* it applies to, and what it does not needs to be put into law.
2) Presidents have gotten into the habit, with foreign complicity, of signing treaties *first*, which means it applies to the US, before even seeking senate approval. This needs to end now. The president should be prohibited from signing any treaty until it is ratified by the senate.
3) Treaties are so powerful that they should have to run the gamut of US senate scrutiny. Whatever process they are using now is not long or detailed enough.
4) The senate needs to review all existing treaties in a slow and methodical process, to see if they need updating, correction, or abrogation. If necessary, they should ask the president to contact the other signatories if treaties need to be reopened for modification.
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Box-o-Rocks and Fineswine...that's about all I need to say.
Thanks to the 50 who are on board, but it demonstrates how tenuous our liberties are when 1/2 "agree" with the UN.
Whoopie, now Obozo will ignore this and order the bureacracy to implement it anyway, just as he has with portions of the Law of the Sea Treaty, (LoST).
Until Congress actually takes action against this rogue administration this is merely granstanding.
And we believe the dims are honest now because....?
No problem. Obama will just ‘deem it passed’.