What’s the Hurry? The effort to bulldoze the New START treaty through the Senate is not only unseemly, it’s dangerous.Joseph & Edelman

What’s the Hurry?
The effort to bulldoze the New START treaty through the Senate is not only unseemly, it’s dangerous. Joseph & Edelman 
This Thursday, Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, intends to force a vote on New START, moving the resolution of ratification to the Senate floor for a final vote. Although only a handful of witnesses requested by the Senate minority have been called to testify on the treaty’s merits (we were among them), serious criticisms of the treaty’s shortcomings have nonetheless emerged. Unfortunately, many of the concerns raised, while mentioned in Senator Kerry’s draft resolution of ratification, are not addressed in a manner that is likely to allay critics’