Re: Suggested plan to leverage the WTO issue in the senate
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The Senate only ratifies treaties, and we are already in the WTO. It is out of their hands now, enforcement or bringing us inline with a treaty is an executive matter.
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lurker,
You are taking my post too far, as I certainly don't mean to suggest a resolution as necessarily leading to any concrete legislation on the WTO. Regarding your quote above, I realize it is up to the administration to comply with treaties. But it is certainly within the province and duties of the senate to express its concerns and desires regarding same. All I am proposing is a way to bring the WTO issue to the forefront in order to get more recognition of the entire gambling issue and efforts in the house. And a sense of the senate resolution might be a way to do that, especially as senators don't have to commit at that point to concrete ways to comply.
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