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Hillary Clinton, military leaders urge passage of high seas pact

By Donna Cassata

 |  Associated Press  

  May 24, 2012

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation’s top military leaders pleaded Wednesday for Senate approval of a long-spurned high seas treaty, arguing that the pact will boost national security and American jobs. In a rare joint appearance before Congress, Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey, made the case for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was concluded in 1982 and has been in force since 1994.

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