POTUS to Senate: You Are Optional
gettin’ it now?
With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.
So the Senate would “have to” pass it? Or it won’t matter one way or t’other what the Senate would do…
Senate = Rope-Handled Shovel
*listens for outcry from Senate*
Posted by Claire on 07/05 at 01:18 PM
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