Membership or Leadership? The working unions (non public sector) members would be against it. Their leaders though will be for whatever the DNC tells them to be, like with Obamacare. The public sector unions will support it, would be my guess.Where do the unions stand on this? That's where Joe will be.
I propose a Constitutional amendment.
It's well known that the American federal executive branch likes to sign foreign treaties and then pretend that that is sufficient to obligate the nation to the treaty's precepts while refusing to send the treaty to the Senate for ratification per the existing Constitution. The chief executive will sometimes delay this process for years while waiting for an election cycle to bring a favourable batch of legislators into office to insure ratification.
My proposal is to short circuit such a tactic by ending it with an implied affirmative rejection/veto of such treaties.
All treaties signed by the executive branch and/or its officers must be submitted to, debated, and voted upon definitively by the Senate no later than 100 days after the date of its receipt of an executive signature. That 100 days includes the days of signing and voting. Kerry signed the ATT on Sept 25. That means on Dec. 3, if the Senate has not affirmatively ratified the ATT, it will be as if they had affirmatively vetoed it and all politicians would have absolutely no basis on which to claim it had any force whatsoever.
I think everyone would get a warm and fuzzy if they received a thoughtful, personal response from a representative. Some form letters even impart that, to a certain degree and one needs to ask themselves if it is a form letter (sure it is).
Joe's letters are an insult to form letters everywhere.
NAYs ---46 | ||
Baldwin (D-WI) Baucus (D-MT) Bennet (D-CO) Blumenthal (D-CT) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Coons (D-DE) Cowan (D-MA) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) | Harkin (D-IA) Hirono (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Klobuchar (D-MN) Landrieu (D-LA) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) | Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Warner (D-VA) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
I know this is sort of old news. But with the signing of the treaty it may be worth a reminder to all the INGOers who do not live in Indiana of the Senators who voted to give our 2A rights to the UN in violation of the Constitution, and who need to be defeated in 2014 or 2016.
Truth or fiction states:
The Truth:
It is true that 46 Democratic Senators voted against Amendment 139 on the Senate Floor on March 23, 2013?
The statement of purpose on the Amendment said, "To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty." This according to the official website of the U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote.
The Amendment passed by a narrow margin 53 to 46 with one member not voting.
The senators who casted votes against this measure were:
NAYs ---46 Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
As for the charge of treason, that is for each American to decide. What is clearly evident by this vote is that the 46 Senators failed do to something which they all took an oath to do. And that is to support and defend the Constitution.
When you look through that list, there are some states represented that surprise me a bit.