Even as recent international attention has been focused on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, we need to seize this opportunity to control threats from biological and chemical weapons and to make major breakthroughs in the follow
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Thirty-five years ago, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. Today, almost all nations are party to the treaty. The NPT represents a key legal barrier to nuclear weapons proliferation and makes a critica
Continue reading >>"...that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not vanish from this earth." -- President Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address, 1863
Continue reading >>"An interest group is an organized body of individuals who share some goals and who try to influence public policy." -- Jeffrey Berry, The Interest Group So
Continue reading >>Due to the high volume and complexity of its work, the Senate divides its tasks among 20 committees, 68 subcommittees, and 4 joint committees. Although the Senate committee system is similar to that of the House of Representatives, it has its own guideli
Continue reading >>"It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." — Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American Communications Association v. Douds, 1950
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