Senate Takes Up START Debate as Clock Ticks for Lame-Duck Session

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec10/start1_12-16.html

SUMMARY

After months of haggling, the Senate is now considering one of President Obama's top foreign policy priorities for the lame-duck Congress -- the New START treaty that he signed with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to limit both countries' nuclear arsenals, replacing an expired 1991 agreement.

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