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To: didjuneau who wrote (70672)	1/31/2003 3:34:21 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Maybe you could give me an example of another Senate vote on a particular topic that you can remember, with no dissent, that was forced by the farther extreme of one party. I doubt if it's worth pursuing much further, OHD. But, on that point, I don't think the vote was "forced" by the right wing Republicans in the Senate. I suspect but don't know that it was presented to the Senate as a negotiating ploy. Here's what it would take to get Senate approval of the treaty--two conditionals, which were large. They would then constitute a bargaining position from which some sorts of proposals could emerge.