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GOP Blocks U.N. Treaty

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Designed to protect people with disabilities.

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The Senate on Tuesday failed to pass a U.N. treaty designed to ban discrimination against people with disabilities. The final vote tally was 61–38, which fell five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to ratify a treaty.

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