There may even be some fleeting, if basically hortatory, expressions about the dangers we face around the world.

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Spence amendment, which was adopted by 221-204, inserted hortatory language into H.

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Just 758 words - a little under two pages of the forty-five in its glossy blueprint for "a governing agenda" - are devoted to mostly hortatory statements about demanding policies, "getting all hands on deck" and passing "clean" troop-funding legislation.

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These phrases are not merely hortatory.

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Instead, the Senate should recognize that, if we want to promote a new global norm against chemical warfare, it would be no less effective but far more responsible, safer, and certainly cheaper to do so via hortatory United Nations Security Council resolutions rather than by means of fatally flawed arms control agreements.

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