Legislative prospects were so bleak, the administration didn't even bother to introduce the Kyoto global warming treaty for ratification.
That plutonium handling plant was included in the Treaty Resolution of Ratification which President Obama pledged to support upon entry of the treaty into force.
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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.
Fortunately, when an informed, thorough debate on the CTBT was conducted by the Senate, fully half of the "world's greatest deliberative body" refused to consent to the treaty's ratification.
It is easy to understand why Mr. Webber's organization wants to position itself in the public mind on the side of the arms control angels, but can anyone really suppose the treaty's ratification would prevent a group like that crazed Japanese cult from making or using poison gas?
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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.
Our goal -- the goal of the two Presidents -- is to ensure tranquil ratification of the treaty by our parliament.
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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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The main task of the full signature period we regard as achieving the ratification of the treaty, as mentioned by my colleague, Mr. President of the United States, and it is also important to synchronize the ratification process.
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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.
Refused to pursue ratification of the Treaty of Rome which establishes an International Criminal Court (ICC) on the grounds that such a mechanism is likely to become politicized and may be abused to prosecute American leaders, military personnel, and other U.S. citizens without regard for their constitutional rights.
Senator Kyl's remarks were followed by brief comments by Rep. Solomon concerning the need for opponents of the CTBT and similar treaties to stay vigilant because the Clinton Administration, foreign governments (including some of our allies) and other advocates can be expected to mount a renewed push for the ratification of this Treaty.
It is against this unlikely backdrop, that a group of prominent former and present officials released today a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urging him to facilitate the "expeditious" ratification of a treaty that would help establish precedents useful to opponents of the Bush Administration at the UN and elsewhere: the Law of the Sea (LOST).
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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.
And John Holum, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said the Senate should put off any discussion of the treaty's costs until after ratification--a classic sales pitch for a pig in a poke.
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He also declined to recommend to the Senate ratification of the ICC Treaty in its present form which he described as "deeply flawed, " even though at the last moment he buckled into pressure to sign it.
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