MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti political...
and one-third of the Senate.According to the U.S. Constitution, the Senate has to ratify all international agreements signed by the United States. Obama will have to come up with really strong arguments to persuade the Republican Senators to support the new START Treaty: stronger then his eloquent rhetoric.
Pushing the pact through the Senate will require at least two-thirds of the vote (67). Democrats currently have 59 votes (including two independent members), while Republicans have 41. This is not sufficient today and will be even more problematic after November. It is commonplace in America to "counterbalance" a Democratic president with Republicans in the Congress, and vice versa. Since ever more voters are becoming discontented with the country"s domestic economic and social polices, even more Republicans are likely to win seats in November. Even if they fail to win a parliamentary majority, there will certainly be more of them. Theoretically, the START Treaty
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