Honorable John Kerry
U.S. Senator, Massachusetts, Democrat
Senator Kerry was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 112th Congress and is currently President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. The following is excerpted from a December 4, 2012, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate on ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We are going to vote in a few minutes, and we are going to vote on a treaty that I regret to say some people are making controversial when, in fact, it really isn’t controversial….
