Hot Air has posted an article by Ed Morrissey on a change President Obama is looking at in the way treaties are approved by the Senate.
Regarding the approval of treaties by the Senate, the U. S. Constitution states:
"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make
Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...'
According to the article:
"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."
The article points out that the Democrats have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. If they won't pass the treaty, maybe it doesn't deserve to be passed. It is the job of the Senate to enforce the Constitution. If this Senate won't enforce it, then we need to elect a Senate that will.
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