President Bush startled conservatives in his own party in 2005 with his support for U.S. ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty LOST. The Republican rank-and-file has adamantly opposed this effort to give the UN regulatory and taxing powers over all the world's oceans and territorial seas...
February 6, 2008 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the International Convention Against Doping in Sport, adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization on October 19, 2005....
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush and US Olympic officials urged lawmakers to pass an international anti-doping agreement seen as a key step before consideration of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics. Bush said that basics of the International Convention Against Doping in Sport, drafted by the...
January 22, 2008 To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification, the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships, 2001 (the "Convention"). The Convention aims to control the harmful effects...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On October 4, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty LOST. The prepared testimony given by the several witnesses underscores the fact that LOST is a real threat, and could be ratified at any time by the...
October 23, 2007 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Protocol of Amendments to the Convention on the International Hydrographic Organization done at Monaco on April 14, 2005. The Protocol...
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Sarah Schaerr Norton of Accuracy in Media, +1-202-364- 4401 ext. 107, Sarah.Schaerr@aim.org Law of Sea Treaty at Center of Scandal WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Through an exclusive interview with a United Nations whistleblower, Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid has uncovered shocking allegations of...
SYDNEY, Australia -- TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: I transmit herewith, with a view to receiving advice and consent, the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the "London Convention"), done in London on November 7,...
May 3, 2007 To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith for the Senate's advice and consent to ratification the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (the "Treaty" or "Singapore Treaty") adopted and signed by the United States at Singapore on March 28, 2006. I...
November 13, 2006 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (the "Agreement"), adopted in Geneva on July...
ABSTRACT Courts, lawyers, and scholars have long assumed that The Federalist Papers supply important information for use in constitutional argument and interpretation. In recent years, commentators have questioned this view. Their skepticism grows out of two major concerns. First, Justice Scalia's challenge to...
September 5, 2006 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, subject to the reservation outlined below, I transmit herewith the Patent Law Treaty and Regulations Under the Patent Law Treaty (the "Treaty"), done at...
June 27, 2006 Today a bipartisan majority of United States Senators voted to protect our Nation's most important symbol through a Constitutional amendment to authorize Congress to prohibit the desecration of the American flag. Unfortunately, the final count fell short of the votes needed to send this important proposed...
June 19, 2006 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith: the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem...
JANUARY 1, 2006 MARKED THE DATE that the Bush Administration had set for implementation of the US-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). However, progress has been frustrated in various countries where the United States insists on the need for dramatic changes in domestic laws, often...
October 27, 2005 To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (the "Corruption Convention"), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on October 31,...
Conservative Americans who consider George W. Bush a champion of national sovereignty have been shocked to learn that the president seeks Senate ratification of the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty LOST. Despite the Senate's refusal thus far to ratify the treaty, it went into effect in...
Once considered dead in the water, the United Nation's Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCLOS Treaty may now be on the threshold of U.S. Senateratification, allowing the United States to define not only its sovereignty and national security, but ecological, shipping, resource and fishing concerns as well....
When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 18, Chairman Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.) cited written answers she gave the committee urging ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty LOST."I cannot think of a stronger administration statement in support of the Law of...
MEXICO CITY, Sep 17, 2004 (El Economista/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Legislators and business leaders have agreed that once the Economic Association Agreement AAEMJ is remitted to the Senate after being signed by President Vicente Fox and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumim...
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