We’ve written quite a bit about the START nuclear arms reduction treaty, and the appeal by the White House to Jewish groups to back its ratification.
As soon as the vote is out, we’ll have something up. Meantime, you could do a lot worse than follow Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy, as he has live-blogged its rescue from the oblivion to which Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) had hoped to consign it. This is from his latest:
Everyone here on Capitol Hill is beginning to see the ratification of New START as increasingly inevitable — everyone, that is, except for Sen. Jon Kyl.
As the Senate headed toward a vote to close debate on the treaty, more and more GOP senators came out in favor of the agreement, pushing the number of Republicans supporting New START past the nine-vote threshold that would ensure the necessary two-thirds majority for ratification of the treaty in the final vote coming Thursday.
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