Well neither had I , until this morning. The phone rings, and it's a robo caller urging me to call my senator to oppose it. So I did a little web surfing and I find CRPD is a UN treaty on the rights of disabled persons. If ratified by the Senate, it would replace all American law (the Americans with Disabilities Act mainly) with UN law. Which is a good reason to vote it down. Nobody knows what is in it. Ratifying it would be buying a pig in a poke. We have pretty good law on the subject, that was worked out in Congress some years ago and we are mostly satisfied with it. It would be dumb to replace what we have with a mystery treaty written by the UN which is full of little countries that don't like us much.
Apparently, in an effort to avoid dealing with the fiscal cliff, Harry Reid decided the CRPD is just what we need to pass in this lame duck session of Congress.
That's keeping the best interests of the United States in mind. Good show Harry.
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