While an executive agreement would also be submitted to the Senate, it would not require ratification.
The president can and should pursue Russian agreement to an interim executive agreement on verification, which would restate START's telemetry and inspection provisions.
Is this the reason that it is being offered as an executive agreement, which requires a simple majority vote of both houses of Congress?
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But yes, technically the next administration, since it is an executive agreement, could change it or make some amendment to it at some point.
While federal law rightly prohibits executive agreements - which do not require Senate action - that impose limitations on U.S. armed forces or armaments, no such limits would be involved in an interim executive agreement on verification alone.
Rather than risk defeat with all that would entail for bilateral relations and for the prospects for other arms reduction accords also encumbered by serious verification problems (such as START) the Administration has evidently decided to negotiate this pact as an executive agreement rather than a treaty.
Tuesday's Stormont session, which rubber-stamped the executive's agreement to extend the cross community compromise over the justice department, was rather more predictable than Tuesday's Dail sitting, when Enda Kenny confirmed that the Irish people would be given their chance to say yes or no to the European fiscal compact.
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Gerald Majola, Cricket South Africa's chief executive, also welcomed the agreement, saying he was "certain this competition will significantly enhance the international stature of domestic cricket".
In a statement on the company's website, Pinewood's chief executive Ivan Dunleavy said the agreement to build Pinewood Atlanta was "another step forward for the Pinewood brand internationally".
Chief executive Tom Albanese stepped down by mutual agreement with the board, Rio Tinto said, and has been replaced by Sam Walsh, chief executive of the miner's iron ore business.
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IRA. Sinn Fein says the Good Friday agreement did not make executive posts dependent on prior decommissioning.
After more than 24 straight hours of negotiations, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director Donald Fehr announced the agreement shortly before dawn to a scrum of bleary-eyed reporters in New York City ( Watch the video).
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The action against Kenya did not have the unanimous agreement of Caf's executive committee.
As one executive surrenders, a 'cooperation' agreement is reached with prosecutors, leading to further arrests.
Mr Hunt was referring to the case of Gary Walker, a former NHS chief executive in Lincolnshire who breached a confidentiality agreement to talk to the BBC.
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The key difference this time is an unprecedented agreement between Bertarelli, chief executive of Serono S.A., the Geneva-based biotechnology company, and fellow billionaire Larry Ellison, whose Team Oracle is the so-called Challenger of Record.
Akorn Chief Executive Arthur Pryzbyl calls the newly inked marketing agreement significant.
But the agreement also called for the county executive to "promote" legislation that would prohibit landlords from rejecting tenants who use government subsidies to help pay their rent.
The UN is the only venue capable of executing such an agreement, argued Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, during an afternoon press conference on the last day of negotiations in Bangkok.
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While Lilliputian hasn't announced an agreement with a big manufacturer, Chief Executive Kenneth Lazarus says he's talking to most of them.
The trust's chief executive, Rose Gibb, later resigned by mutual agreement.
Mr. Obama can take some steps without agreement from Congress, as he has executive authority to ban certain gun imports and strengthen some aspects of background checks.
The Scottish Executive said it would fund full implementation of the agreement and that the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers is making progress to resolve all areas of concern.
Chief Executive Rupert Murdock announced his company was finalizing an agreement with several partners led by powerful private equity firm International Data Group (IDG), to launch a localized version of the popular MySpace.com. in China.
At that time the IRA agreed to become involved in a disarmament process as part of an overall political package to restore the suspended powersharing executive and implement all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement including police reform and demilitarisation.
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He said the previous county executive had fulfilled the obligation to promote it and the agreement didn't bind him to the same requirement.
The anti-agreement MP William Ross emerged from the meeting saying executive members had passed a "very sensible resolution".
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