Stakeholders differ on whether increasing partisanship on Capitol Hill might affect Senaternratification of the Marrakesh Treaty on people with problems seeing having better access to printrnworks. Some said in interviews this week they believe the so-called nuclear option (CD Nov 24 p4)rnfor the Senate, which must ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty, could add tornan already fraught legislative environment. Others said they doubt the Senate rules move preventingrnsome nominees from being fillibustered is pertinent to the ratification of the treaty passed at WIPO'srnMorocco conference in June.
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