Statement from Senator Coons on Senate’s failure to ratify Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement Tuesday expressing strong disappointment in the Senate’s failure to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The treaty, which required two-thirds of the Senate to vote for in order to be ratified by the United States, failed by a vote of 61-38. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international agreeme...