THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to dust off the Dianne Feinstein Moral-Equivalence Award, named for the California senator who last year compared China's Tiananmen Square massacre to the 1970 Kent State tragedy. The first winners of 1998: DiFi herself (again) along with Minnesota Republican senator Rod Grams. The two of them teamed up last week to block an anodyne, non-binding sense of the Senate resolution calling on President Clinton to introduce, and take all necessary measures to pass, a resolution at the U.N. Committee on Human Rights meeting in Geneva criticizing China for its human rights abuses. The resolution, proposed by senators Connie Mack, a conservative Republican, and Paul Wellstone, a liberal Democrat, was so uncontroversial that it was set to pass the Senate unanimously, until Feinstein and Grams blocked it. Now, it will have to go through the Foreign Relations Committee, of which Grams is a member. He may be able to tie it up there as well. Meanwhile, Feinstein reportedly wants language to be included in the resolution acknowledging the State Department's claims that there's been an improvement in China's human- rights climate.
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DIFI RETURNS
THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to dust off the Dianne Feinstein Moral-Equivalence Award, named for the California senator who last year compared China's Tiananmen Square massacre to the 1970 Kent State tragedy. The first winners of 1998: DiFi herself (again) along with Minnesota Republican senator Rod…
The Scrapbook · March 9, 1998
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