Under the Constitution, it only takes 34 votes to prevent the ratification of a treaty.
Never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the ratification of a strategic arms treaty been considered in a lame-duck session.
Others include the expiring program of extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, government funding, and ratification of a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
This would at best impose a delay to the ratification of the treaty.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
He was reacting to comments by Jon Kyl, a Republican senator who said he did not think ratification of the New Start treaty should be considered this year.
BBC: Biden warns failure to pass nuclear treaty endangers US
Still others have not specified their targets, instead urging restraint in filing such suits until the U.S. becomes a party, lest our ratification be jeopardized by prematurely revealing the true costs of this treaty.
MPs are currently debating the ratification of the treaty - but the Conservatives, who are the only party at Westminster demanding a referendum, would need to gain the support of Lib Dem and Labour MPs to get their way.
Mr Hague has said he will impose a three-line whip requiring Tories to vote against ratification of the European Union's Amsterdam treaty, which Tony Blair signed last June.
At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
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