“On or about September …” Tom Daschle is the Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate.

“According to press secretary John Cz …” A Unanimous Consent request ( or U.C. as it’s referred to here in big-time Washington) is just that: If even one Senator objects, then there is no unanimity and the request is denied. No Democrat objected. The treaty was scheduled.

“Clinton’s Capt. Louis Renault …” Prefect of Police Renault was the character played by Claude Raines. He had some of the best lines in the movie including, “round up the usual suspects,” and when ordered by the Germans to shut down Rick’s Café announces that he was “shocked, shocked to find that is gambling going on in here.”

“Al Gore is no Stuart.” Stuart is the star in the ad for a stock brokerage who teaches his boss how to trade on line.

“…we can expect Gore to do readings …” Silkwood was a movie starring Meryl Streep which recounted the poisoning of Karen Silkwood by plutonium in a nuclear processing plant.

“We can just ask the Chinese …” The Chinese stole a very large amount of information about our nuclear warheads and, one supposes, how to test them from computers at the Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico.