However broad the President's authority may be to recognize States and governments of States under the "receive Ambassadors" clause, it is necessarily limited by the specific Constitutional requirement for Senate advice and consent on the making of treaties.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

As the Senate exercises its responsibilities as a co-equal branch in the making of international treaties, its real expertise and alternative visions about the feasibility, utility and desirability of arms control must be strengthened, acknowledged and respected.

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There are a number of important treaties which the Committee intends to take up during 1998, and we must be assured of your Administration's cooperation in making certain that these treaties receive a comprehensive examination by the Senate.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: United States Senate

Currently, almost everything except labour mobility is up for liberalisation, making the TPP one of the most comprehensive free-trade treaties yet conceived.

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Unfortunately, the Senate's spotty record in recent decades of taking seriously its role in the treaty-making process has only served to encourage successive executives to settle for bad treaties - and trust that they would not be held accountable for the defects.

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He also took a swipe at Egypt and Jordan the two countries to have signed treaties with Israel by solemnly swearing he would never leave the Palestinians in the lurch by making a separate peace.

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