Legislative prospects were so bleak, the administration didn't even bother to introduce the Kyoto global warming treaty for ratification.
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 National Rifle Association, the American gun lobby, has vowed to oppose the treaty's ratification in the U.S. Senate.
The debate over the participation of developing countries in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, has stalled ratification of the treaty.
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Then attention will turn to the Czech Republic and Poland, whose presidents have yet to sign the Lisbon Treaty, completing the ratification process.
The latest skirmishes, she said, proved that ratification of the treaty by India was urgent.
Court jurisdictions over US personnel should come only with US ratification of the treaty.
Under the Constitution, it only takes 34 votes to prevent the ratification of a treaty.
This would at best impose a delay to the ratification of the treaty.
So I hope that the Senate will move quickly and give its advice and consent to the ratification of this treaty.
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.
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.
Proponents of ratification ignore the treaty's severe problems.
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MPs are currently debating the ratification of the treaty - but the Conservatives, who are the only party at Westminster demanding a referendum, would need to gain the support of Lib Dem and Labour MPs to get their way.
And I look forward to working with the United States Senate to achieve ratification for this important treaty later this year.
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Mr Reinfeldt said that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, as was persuading the G20 to try and end the "bonus culture" in world banking.
If the process drags into 2010, Lisbon's backers fear, a new Conservative government in Britain will withdraw its ratification and put the treaty to a referendum.
In the meantime there are some very positive signs: The decision of the German Constitutional Court to approve the ratification of the ESM treaty with only minor conditions was one of them.
The European Parliament is a key player in setting the EU's budget, and its powers have been expanded following ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, especially in areas such as the budget for agriculture.
Yet those are the words chosen by Mr Lellouche this morning, after the British opposition leader David Cameron unveiled his new Europe policy, to take account of the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty.
It would, in short, be an embarrassment as well as an impediment to ratification of the New START Treaty.
Never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the ratification of a strategic arms treaty been considered in a lame-duck session.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
EU's reform treaty still before the British parliament for ratification.
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He was reacting to comments by Jon Kyl, a Republican senator who said he did not think ratification of the New Start treaty should be considered this year.
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The White House had tried to link any summit to the Duma's ratification of the START II treaty, saying only then would the two leaders be able to go forward in negotiating further arms control treaties.
At the summit, the United States will sign accords on enhanced verification procedures sought by the Reagan Administration for the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of the 1970s as prerequisites to ratification by the U.S. Congress.
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Recognizing that the 1994 Agreement did little to change the substance of the treaty, the Senate had long-refused ratification.
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
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