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en If the U.S. accepts this consensus, the proposal is likely to be adopted. But if the U.S. insists on further amendments, we are likely to be worse off. Countries hostile to human rights protection are keen to introduce amendments that would weaken the new council.

en The proposed new council is a major improvement over the old Commission on Human Rights. It would be reckless for the United States to force a vote because that will invite amendments from spoiler states to weaken the council. The time has come to accept the overwhelming consensus behind the council and to work to make it function effectively.

en The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.

en This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.
  Russ Feingold

en What's important to note here is that a lot of these amendments that have passed around the country the last few years, that they were sold to the public as strictly defining marriage. But many of the amendments don't do just that -- there are far-reaching affects.

en Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

en One of the things I think Americans just can't understand is how countries with abysmal human rights records get elected to the [UN] Human Rights Commission. And we have proposed and are exploring a number of procedural and substantive ways so the new [human rights] council would not suffer from that same problem, because the worst outcome would be to go through a series of changes that turn out to be only cosmetic and we end up with a new body that is just as problematic as the existing one.

en We all realize we will have to introduce amendments to the current legislation in the country,

en There had been tremendous progress toward a consensus in creating a human rights council. That consensus has now been damaged because Bolton picked up the pages of the draft document and threw them into the air.

en If the UN refuses to make meaningful changes to the council structure, the US should lead a group of like-minded democracies with a demonstrated commitment to the protection of human rights to create an effective and accountable human rights oversight body outside the UN system.

en It would be too easy for countries that are habitual violators of human rights to get onto the Human Rights Council.

en They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constitution in this country, it's only ever been done to give more rights to people, not to take rights away. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. That's why this is particularly heinous.

en I suspect that we go to the floor as it is, and those who disagree with the bill, specifically the Democrats who voted against it in committee, would have an opportunity to introduce amendments,

en There are a number of countries in our particular group that have strong human rights records, that are democracies, that we believe are strong supporters of human rights. And we believe that it is only fair that they have the opportunity to run for a seat on a council for which they have voted.

en The mayor was very supportive of all of the ideas that council members sent us as amendments.


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