Date: 1978-03-22
Result:
52-42
Vote Subject Matter:
Foreign and Defense Policy
/ Foreign Policy Resolutions
Sponsor: SARBANES, Paul Spyros (D-MD)
Description: TO TABLE DIVISION 2 OF THE ALLEN AMENDMENT #86 TO THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY. DIVISION 2 OF THE ALLEN AMENDMENT PROTECTS THE RIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES TO NEGOTIATE WITH ANY OTHER NATION THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANSOCEANIC CANAL ANYWHERE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
Original source documents:
Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 124-42, p. 4351;
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