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.
The Senate is expected shortly to be asked to give its advice and consent to the START II Treaty.
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.
Advice and consent isn't supposed to mean partisan deference to the White House, especially when a nominee looks as unprepared as Mr. Hagel does.
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.
In the hope of cementing that outcome, his Administration has been frantically seeking Senate advice and consent to another arms control accord -- the START II Treaty.
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.
Despite an effort to secure Senate advice and consent to LOST in the parliamentary equivalent of the dark of night, a broad coalition of largely conservative and libertarian organizations came together in adamant opposition.
Is it still your position that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would be good for our national security and that the Senate should provide its advice and consent to the treaty in the near-term?
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The three-judge panel flatly rejected arguments from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which claimed that the president has discretion to decide that the Senate is unavailable to perform its advice and consent function.
Were the President to use the recognition function to make a treaty that would not otherwise exist, he would put the United States under a legal obligation to other States without Senate advice and consent.
Mr. President, I feel obliged to make clear to you my concern that your Administration has been unwisely and unnecessarily engaged in delay in submitting these treaties to the Senate for its advice and consent.
Their goal is to force the Senate to ignore the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty's myriad, fatal flaws and to provide its advice and consent to an accord President Clinton has called arms control's "longest-sought, hardest-fought" goal.
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