y lines. The research question that will be investigated will not even be whether the vote failed because the Republican majority in the United States Senate truly believed that the treaty was not in the best interests of the United States or because the Republican majority want to retaliate against President Clinton (anyone who believes that the CTBT failed on a balanced non-partisan vote should reanalyze the voting data). There are 53 Republicans in the United States Senate, along with 45 Democrats, one independent, and one seat is vacant. The vote against the CTBT was 51 to 48. All 51 of the senators voting against the CTBT were Republicans. Of the 48 senators voting for the treaty, 45 were Democrats two were Republican, and one was an independent. The partisanship of the CTBT vote, thus, is not n question. There would be no point in answering this question because the answer could be provided only by the Senators casting the votes, and would be required to be unbelievably gullible to accept the validity of the
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