[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 155 (Friday, November 5, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S14224]
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                     TAX CONVENTION WITH LITHUANIA

  The resolution of ratification is as follows:

       Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring 
     therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the 
     ratification of the Convention between the Government of the 
     United States of America and the Government of the Republic 
     of Lithuania for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
     Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, 
     signed at Washington on January 15, 1998 (Treaty Doc. 105-
     56), subject to the declaration of subsection (a) and the 
     proviso of subsection (b).
       (a) Declaration.--The Senate's advice and consent is 
     subject to the following declaration, which shall be binding 
     on the President:
       (1) Treaty interpretation.--The Senate affirms the 
     applicability to all treaties of the constitutionally based 
     principles of treaty interpretation set forth in Condition 
     (1) of the resolution of ratification of the INF Treaty, 
     approved by the Senate on May 27, 1988, and Condition (8) of 
     the resolution of ratification of the Document Agreed Among 
     the States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces 
     in Europe, approved by the Senate on May 14, 1997.
       (b) Proviso.--The resolution of ratification is subject to 
     the following proviso, which shall be binding on the 
     President:
       (1) Supremacy of constitution.--Nothing in the Convention 
     requires or authorizes legislation or other action by the 
     United States of America that is prohibited by the 
     Constitution of the United States as interpreted by the 
     United States.

     

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