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.
Passionate and vocal, Wellstone was quick to debate his colleagues on a host of issues -- most recently the congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, which Wellstone opposed.
Also the president's lawyers looked at the 1991 Persian Gulf Resolution, authorizing the use of force against Iraq, and the resolution passed by Congress in September, giving the president the authority to use whatever means necessary in this war on terror.
As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China could block efforts to pass another resolution authorising the use of force against Saddam Hussein's regime.
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.
The rebels were soon backed by NATO airstrikes, launched in March under a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to protect civilians from reprisals.
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.
Furthermore, in a bid to maintain faith with the UN Security Council resolution permitting the use of force in Libya to protect civilians, Obama has refused to articulate a clear goal for the US military involvement in Libya.
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Congressional leaders said in mid-September they are eyeing a pre-election vote on a resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein, which would guarantee that Iraq, and the larger war on terrorism, remain a dominant issue throughout the fall.
Indeed, just before the war, in an effort to scuttle US-British efforts to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution approving the use of force against Saddam Hussein's regime, ElBaradei reported to the Security Council that Iraq had abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
The Soviets stalled Security Council approval of the "use of force" resolution for days.
When the draft second resolution to allow the use of force came across his desk in early 2003 he took it apart, noting minutely how it departed from international law.
They asked the Supreme Court to address Padilla's detention since it involves fundamental constitutional questions of how much authority was granted to the president in a post-September 11, 2001, congressional resolution authorizing the use of military force.
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.
Even if every General Assembly member except Israel votes in favor of a resolution recognizing "Palestine, " all the Palestinians will have achieved is another non-binding resolution, with no force of law, asserting the same thing that thousands of UN resolutions already assert.
Once that movement is verified, the council will "then complete the formality of adopting the resolution, " followed by the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to ensure the safe return of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian refugees to their homes.
She repeated this tendency to tilt toward the assertion of military force by voting in favor of the highly controversial resolution designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
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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.
But most of them cannot do this because they voted in favour of last year's congressional resolution authorising force in Iraq.
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.
Biden said that despite all the talk of Congress passing a resolution authorizing Bush to use force, he does not believe it will happen because he predicted that Bush will likely move forward diplomatically with the United Nations rather than seek immediate military action.
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