>> United States to bring its legislation in conformity with its international obligations
What international obligations are you referring to? Certainly not NAFTA and GATT since they are unconstitutional treaties (the constitution requires supermajority approval by the Senate for treaty ratificaation). Again, what obligations are you referring to?
a package of 34 treaties, all of which were ratified by a show of hands -- no recorded vote.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a325b3f5d31.htm
Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court &Congress/is believed to be unprecedented.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0c30a81760.htm
The United States has signed agreements and the rest of the world expects it to live up to its word, just as the U.S. should and does expect the rest of the world to live up to theirs.
The issue here is that the Byrd Amendment, and some other unilateral actions, have the U.S. not living up to their end of the deals signed. If the Europeans aren't living up to their end, slap trade sanctions on them too. If we in Canada aren't, do the same to us. But we do live up to our word on trade and we expect the U.S. to do likewise.
NAFTA and GATT,wto are part ot the U.N
Ahh Philip, you miss the point NAFTA and GATT are not treaties, they are "agreements" you see if you call it an agreement you don't have to have a supermajority, which would have been nigh onto impossible to get. I did learn something from the Klintoons.