Read it from the San Francisco Chronicle:
A treaty governing the high seas is all but dead in the Senate as two Republicans announced their opposition Monday, giving conservative foes the necessary votes to scuttle the pact.
Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire – both mentioned as possible running mates for likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney – said they had serious concerns about the breadth and ambiguity of the Law of the Sea treaty and would oppose it if called up for a vote.
But LOST might come back after the election:
The office of Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, dismissed the public statements as election-season politicking, and vowed to keep fighting for the treaty.
“No letter or whip count changes the fact that rock-ribbed Republican businesses and the military and every living Republican Secretary of State say that this needs to happen, and that’s why it’s a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ for the Law of the Sea,” said Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth.
But for now say YEA! And considering thanking Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina (I don’t know how he sits next to his colleague Senator Lindsey Graham!), here’s his office website.
