That position is controlled by the White House, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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In addition, changes to an existing treaty would inevitably require the Senate's advice and consent .
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That number is more than enough to preclude the Senate advice and consent required by the Constitution.
So I hope that the Senate will move quickly and give its advice and consent to the ratification of this treaty.
As the President noted, the Senate has a very important role to play in providing advice and consent on any treaty.
It is predictable, moreover, that such changes to an existing treaty will be seen by the Democratic Senate as requiring its advice and consent.
And we discussed the fact that the Senate appropriately has a role in advice and consent, and it ultimately needs to ratify this treaty.
But most especially, it strains credulity that Senators would want to authorize such an expenditure before they have given advice and consent to this accord.
This treaty clearly requires the advice and consent of the Senate.
With the advice and consent of the Senate, it is our hope and expectation that Leon Panetta will soon take the reigns as Secretary of Defense.
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So there is no merit to the suggestion that the exclusive power to recognize States allows the President to make treaties without Senate advice and consent.
Similarly, the Senate is forced to continue to wait for any indication that your Administration intends to submit the Kyoto Protocol for the Senate's advice and consent.
The Congress is a co-equal branch of government and the Article 2, section 2 states that senior officials are appointed only with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.
Given these concerns, I will not, and do not recommend that my successor, submit the treaty to the Senate for advice and consent until our fundamental concerns are satisfied.
The U.S. Senate has not focused on the issue yet, but everyone expects a real fight for 67 votes, the two-thirds necessary to give the Senate's advice and consent.
Helm's urging, the full transcript of this hearing is to be printed and make available before the Senate is asked to give its advice and consent to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
As a result, the treaty which will shortly be submitted to the United States Senate for its advice and consent is unquestionably the most ambitious and overreaching arms control agreement of all time.
This letter constitutes the report and notifications required by section 272 of Public Law 109-401 and the resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the United States Senate of March 31, 2004.
Had more Senators applied more scrutiny to this premise, the ratification process perhaps would have been halted much sooner, or at least slowed down to a pace necessary for fully informed advice and consent.
The EDF is calling the riders unconstitutional because, if included on the bills, they will hinder the executive branch's constitutional role of developing and implementing foreign policy, with advice and consent from the Senate.
Proponents of this treaty, aware that today's Senate is likely to support the agreement in higher numbers without our participation, are urging the Senate to give its advice and consent in the coming weeks.
However broad the President's authority may be to recognize States and governments of States under the "receive Ambassadors" clause, it is necessarily limited by the specific Constitutional requirement for Senate advice and consent on the making of treaties.
Crouch -- which raised similar, serious concerns about the dubious efficacy, verifiability, enforceability, equitableness and utility of the CWC.(1) It also arrives at a moment when this convention's proponents are redoubling their efforts to secure Senate advice and consent.
It would have made little sense to make the primary method of appointment the cumbersome advice and consent procedure contemplated by that Clause if the secondary method would permit the President to fill up all vacancies regardless of when the vacancy arose.
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It documents how the Obama administration sought to obscure the serious defects in the treaty it had negotiated by pressing the Senate to conduct its advice and consent responsibilities under circumstances that were calculated to render oversight exceedingly superficial and debate cursory, at best.
Gaffney and Leitner raised questions about whether the Agreement had, in fact, formally modified the Treaty - one of many issues that they believe demand far more extensive hearings in and scrutiny by U.S. Senate before its members are asked to provide their advice and consent to the Law of the Sea Treaty.
If a foreign State ceases to exist under international law and, consequently, a bilateral treaty between the extinct State and the United States lapses, the President cannot use the "receive Ambassadors" clause to bring a new treaty into force between the United States and a successor to the extinct State without Senate advice and consent.
Importantly, when such a permanent prohibition on testing - in the form of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - was submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent in 1999, the same considerations that underpinned President Reagan's position on testing were among those that caused a majority of Senators to reject the CTBT.
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