UNCLOS treaty has been debated and studied for decades, no further study needed to ratify

Myth: There has been inadequate consideration of the Law of the Sea Treaty and we need more time to study it.

Nonsense! Those who espouse this view fail to note that this is the second round of Senate hearings on the Convention. The first round was held in 1994 when the Convention was initially submitted to the Senate. The Senate, and the Country, has had a decade to study the Convention, and for several decades, since 1983, we have lived under the legal regime of everything but Part XI. I have an especially hard time in finding any sympathy for this position urging delay when it comes from spokesmen who were not heard calling for more consideration of the Convention for the full decade while the treaty languished before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Rarely has any Convention come before the Senate that is more fully understood in its impact and stakes for our Nation, and that has been more fully studied and debated – and, in real effect, lived under; and