text: WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 1998 "Every high school civics student knows that two-thirds of the Senate must approve a treaty before it becomes law, yet the Clinton Administration is acting and encouraging others to act as if the non-ratified Kyoto Protocol were already a controlling legal authority. Senator Ashcroft's legislation will help expose and stop such chicanery," said Marlo Lewis, Jr., Vice President for Policy and Coalitions at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).