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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware, Chairman

PAUL S. SARBANES, Maryland
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut
JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts
RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin
PAUL D. WELLSTONE, Minnesota
BARBARA BOXER, California

ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey
BILL NELSON, Florida

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia

JESSE HELMS, North Carolina
RICHARD G. LUGAR, Indiana
CHUCK HAGEL, Nebraska
GORDON H. SMITH, Oregon
BILL FRIST, Tennessee

LINCOLN D. CHAFEE, Rhode Island
GEORGE ALLEN, Virginia

SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas
MICHAEL B. ENZI, Wyoming

ANTONY J. BLINKEN, Staff Director
PATRICIA A. MCNERNEY, Republican Staff Director

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CONTENTS

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Balmforth, Ms. Kathryn Ogden, Member, Firm of Wood Crapo, LLC, Salt

Lake City, Utah, Former Director, World Family Policy Center, Brigham

Young University, Provo, UT

Prepared statement

Davis, Hon. Jo Ann, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Hoff-Sommers, Dr. Christina, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Insti-

tute, Chevy Chase, MD

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Prepared statement

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Kirkpatrick, Hon. Jeane, Senior Fellow & Director of Foreign and Defense

Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Former Permanent Rep-

resentative to the United Nations, Washington, D.C.

Prepared statement

Koh, Hon. Harold Hongju, Professor, Yale Law School, Former Assistant

Secretary of State for Human Rights, New Haven, CT

Prepared statement

Maloney, Hon. Carolyn B., U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Mclennan, Hon. Juliette C., Former U.S. Representative to the U.N. Commis-

sion on the Status of Women, Easton, MD

Prepared statement

Millender-McDonald, Hon. Juanita, U.S. House of Representatives, Wash-

ington, D.C.

Prepared statement

Morella, Hon. Constance A., U.S. House of Representatives, Washington,

D.C.

Smith, Ms. Jane E., Chief Executive Officer, Business and Professional

Women/USA, Washington, D.C.

Prepared statement

Woolsey, Hon. Lynn C., U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.
Prepared statement

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APPENDIXES

A. Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

Against Women

B. Material Submitted in Support of Ratification of the Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

C. Material Submitted in Opposition to Ratification of the Convention on

the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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