Monday, December 20, 2010

Dems push ahead on U.S.-Russia arms treaty

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left, heads to the Senate floor during a rare Sunday session on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday. Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in news show appearances Sunday morning that he believes Democrats have the votes to ratify START, the nuclear arms treaty with Russia.President Barack Obama lobbied senators by phone Monday to back an arms treaty with Russia that he's called a national security imperative, as a top Senate Democrat conceded "house by house combat" would be needed to win enough GOP votes to prevail.


Source: msnbc.com: More politics

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