joint resolution

Definition of joint resolution

: a resolution passed by both houses of a legislative body that has the force of law when signed by or passed over the veto of the executive

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Recent Examples on the Web The Senate on Monday approved a joint resolution, with the House expected to follow suit, for use of the catafalque for Cummings’ services in Statuary Hall. — Fox News, "Elijah Cummings to 'lie in state' in Capitol's Statuary Hall in new arrangement," 22 Oct. 2019 Waggoner proposed a joint resolution creating the commission in the last legislative session, which Gov. Kay Ivey approved. — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, "Alabama’s Artificial Intelligence Commission getting started," 19 Sep. 2019 Congress has never attempted to end a national emergency invoking the law, which would require a joint resolution. — Washington Post, "Powerful, obscure law is basis for Trump ‘order’ on trade," 25 Aug. 2019 Congress has never attempted to end a national emergency invoking the law, which would require a joint resolution. — Washington Post, "Powerful, obscure law is basis for Trump ‘order’ on trade," 25 Aug. 2019 Congress has never attempted to end a national emergency invoking the law, which would require a joint resolution. — Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, "Trump threatens to use emergency authority in obscure federal law to ‘order’ U.S. companies to cut ties in China," 23 Aug. 2019 Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The United States refused to return the queen her authority, and within 10 years, Hawaii was annexed to the United States under a joint resolution of Congress when efforts to pass a treaty of annexation failed. — Trisha Kehaulani Watson-sproat, Vox, "Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Maunakea from a telescope," 24 July 2019 The treaty annexing Texas had been rejected by the Senate, so, instead, slavery’s supporters rammed a joint resolution through Congress by a bare majority — a procedure of dubious legality. — Timothy Sandefur, National Review, "The Anti-Slavery Constitution," 12 Sep. 2019 Mayor Ron Nirenberg read aloud a joint resolution of the International Charter for Compassion, Compassionate San Antonio and Sister Cities International. — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio joined Compassionate and Sister Cities in prayer and in tears," 13 Aug. 2019

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“Joint resolution.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joint%20resolution. Accessed 8 December 2019.

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