[Ct-nfb] Senate rejects UN Treaty for Disabled Rights

Sat Dec 8 22:41:11 UTC 2012

Justin,

Since it was a treaty being ratified, the required vote is 2/3 (66 out of 
the 99 votes) for the motion to pass.

Nathanael

-----Original Message----- 
From: Justin Salisbury
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 5:29 PM
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Senate rejects UN Treaty for Disabled Rights

Now without the typo:

I am vastly confused by this post.  I'm not trying to debate it or make it 
look silly, but I need someone to please help me make sense of the content.

The number 38, which was the smaller number, would have been those who voted 
for the motion since the motion failed.  It's possible that 38 was also the 
number of republicans who voted against it, so that would leave 61-38=23 
non-republicans who also voted no.  Is that right?

Also, what does the ADA have to do with abortion rights?

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury
B.A. in Mathematics
Class of 2012
East Carolina University
president at alumni.ecu.edu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD

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From: Ct-nfb [ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Chris Kuell 
[ckuell at comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 12:01 PM
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Subject: [Ct-nfb] {Disarmed} Senate rejects UN Treaty for Disabled Rights

Hello, List.

I received several emails on this and other NFB lists encouraging everyone 
to call their federal senators and urge them to vote yes on theConvention on 
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In short, this was an agreement 
among nations to assure the rights of people with disabilities, modeled on 
our Americans with Disabilities Act. Yet, the action failed. How did people 
vote?     And why would they oppose such a motion? The answer to the first 
question is that every democrat in the senate voted to pass the motion, 
while 38 republicans voted no. I really have no answer to the second 
question, although I now know how important rights for people with 
disabilities are to our current republican congressman.

Here is an article from 'The Hill'

A United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with 
disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote.

The treaty, backed by President Obama and former Senate Majority Leader Bob 
Dole (R-Kan.), fell five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for 
confirmation as dozens of Senate Republicans objected that it would create 
new abortion rights and impede the ability of people to homeschool disabled 
children.

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) argued the treaty would infringe on U.S. 
sovereignty, an argument echoed by other opponents.

“This unelected bureaucratic body would pass recommendations that would be 
forced upon the United States if we were a signatory,” he said.

Supporters of the treaty argued that the Convention on the Rights of Persons 
With Disabilities would simply require the rest of the world to meet the 
standards that Americans already enjoy under the 1990 Americans With 
Disabilities Act.

The treaty was negotiated and first signed under former President George W. 
Bush and signed again by Obama in 2009. At least 153 other countries have 
signed it.

Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Scott Brown 
(Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.), 
Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats in 
favor of the treaty.

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