Without either endorsing or opposing it, Congress agreed to forward the Constitution to the states, for ratification.
Our American partners, as I understand, intend to proceed quickly to present this document to the Senate for ratification.
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Legislative prospects were so bleak, the administration didn't even bother to introduce the Kyoto global warming treaty for ratification.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government has approved the pact and sent it to the Council of Representatives for ratification.
Under the Iraqi constitution, unanimous approval by the presidency council is required for ratification of a law or agreement.
Many workers are wary of the new contract, which is up for ratification beginning this weekend, but others recognize the market has changed.
Plans for another two service stations on the M1 are due to be brought before Lisburn Borough Council on Wednesday evening for ratification.
Former President Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol, but also said he would not submit it to the Senate for ratification until several changes were made.
The idea is that final tweaks will be applied at another meeting early in 2002, at which point the treaty will be ready for ratification.
The requirement for ratification of treaties by two-thirds of the Senate was seen by the framers of the Constitution as an important quality-control device for diplomatic initiatives.
The corporate excise tax would be levied, and the income-tax constitutional amendment would be sent out to the states for ratification which Taft and Aldrich thought was impossible.
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The Senate has made such participation a prerequisite for ratification.
There are also some Obama-backed U.N. treaties that defeated globalist-oriented lame-duck members of Congress with nothing to lose may successfully help to push through for ratification before leaving office.
That's because the president now seems left with little choice but to dust off a trade deal he signed nearly a year ago and send it to Congress for ratification.
Mr Obama says he will resubmit the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty to the Senate for ratification (it was rejected in 1999 in a highly partisan vote), something Mr Bush refused to do.
He has squandered valuable time in which to advance free-market principles throughout the region by waiting for three years to present free trade agreements with our allies Colombia and Panama to Congress for ratification.
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President Bill Clinton committed the US to abide by the ICC, but President George W. Bush rescinded the US signature and pledged that he would never bring ICC membership before the Senate for ratification.
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Signatories to the agreement, which will probably be presented for ratification this summer, must have laws on their books that allow, for instance, quick seizure of incriminating computer data and its distribution to authorities in other countries.
Do you believe there are founding fathers who voted for ratification of the U.S. Constitution who would have approved of the federal government requiring Americans to first obtain affirmative permission from government authorities before starting a new job?
But for Senators who were persuaded that the treaty is inimical to American security interests, delaying its consideration while the Clinton Administration sought to neutralize their opposition and gain the votes for ratification would not have been sensible.
Today, I call upon the Congress to promptly pass and to send to the states for ratification an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
The UAW released details of the agreement Tuesday in preparation for a ratification vote over the next week.
An earlier version of this story mistakenly reported that the Obama Administration is sending Additional Protocol 1 for Senate ratification.
He has attached to the bill a "sense of Congress" resolution expressing support for the CTBT and calling for its ratification.
The participants adopted recommendations for the ratification and implementation of the UNESCO 2001 Convention in the Arab states and Mediterranean region.
Sunday's Post credited the work of Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly, Free Congress Foundation's Paul Weyrich, and Center President Frank Gaffney for the ratification delay.
This activity is planned to be completed by July 27, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to push hard for Senate ratification.
U.S. Navy officials, acting clueless and completely in the dark about the nature of U.N. bureaucracies, are actually lobbying on Capitol Hill for Senate ratification of the pact.
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