Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said he wants the Senate to vote on a resolution of force soon.
Friday, Bush turned up the heat on Democrats, lashing out at the suggestion that Congress ought to wait for the United Nations to act before approving a resolution of force against Iraq.
Austria bans the transit of US troops and equipment across its territory from Germany to Italy without a second UN resolution authorising the use of force against Iraq.
But a resolution endorsing the use of force would almost certainly run into a veto.
Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to liquidate such uninspected facilities by that time.
Security Council resolution on the use of force to liberate Kuwait.
Kerry voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but he supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
He voted against committing U.S. troops in the 1991 Persian Gulf War but supported the October congressional resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq in the current standoff.
The Soviets stalled Security Council approval of the "use of force" resolution for days.
Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, said believes Iraq is a real threat, but added that the White House has more convincing to do on Capitol Hill and to the American people before asking Congress to approve a use-of-force resolution against Iraq.
The ceasefire terms of Resolution 687, they say, suspended but did not terminate that authorisation of force.
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At the UN, Russia and the US are locked in frantic discussions about a tough new resolution to force Mr Hussein surrender weapons of mass destruction.
Russia, France and China all rejected the preliminary wording of an American resolution because it explicitly gave Mr Bush full authorisation for the use of military force against Iraq.
But the whole purpose of the surge was to force the Iraqi government to move quickly towards the kind of resolution that only it can bring about.
Although it's worth noting that parliament is supposed, eventually, to pass a resolution approving that state of emergency for it remain in force beyond two months.
There is no Security Council resolution which imposes an arms embargo in Lebanon and such force would have as its obligation to report any violation of this particular Security Council resolution.
Later at the United Nations, Russia introduced a resolution to ban NATO air strikes and force a demilitarization of safe zones in Bosnia.
The United States introduced a resolution asking the United Nations to approve the creation of a multinational force in Iraq.
But all except one of the Democrats' leading presidential candidates supported the congressional resolution authorising force.
Last year, Sudan rejected a U.N. force and only agreed to accept the hybrid force spelled out in Tuesday's resolution after months of negotiations.
Chen and Nordhous superimposed a grid on high-resolution, nighttime images of the globe taken by U.S. Air Force satellites.
The American and British governments have long known that any resolution authorising force would be vetoed by Russia and China, both permanent members of the council.
Security Council approved a resolution Friday to authorize a multinational force to go into Liberia, by a vote of 12-0.
The resolution conferred a measure of symbolic sovereignty on the Iraqi Governing Council, authorised a multinational force to patrol Iraq and gave the council until December 15th to publish a timetable for the transfer of power and the holding of elections.
President Obama had also promised to build a modern Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility for handling plutonium which was included in the Treaty Resolution of Ratification and presented in his message to the Senate upon entry of the treaty into force.
The UN resolution authorises "all necessary measures" to protect civilians under threat of attack - short of an occupying force.
The main force behind this resolution, which was sponsored on its behalf, is the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
There is a resolution (1838, passed in October) which authorises the use of "necessary means", meaning force if need be, to stop piracy in international waters.
He vetoed first an American resolution calling on both belligerents to withdraw and on other states to refrain from using or threatening force in the area, and then a Russian resolution which left out the second part of the exhortation.
Security Counsel for the very purpose of trying to get a resolution passed quickly, so that we can get that U.N. force in place.
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