joint resolution
noun
: 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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If the administration tried to ram an order past informal congressional review, lawmakers could seek to block that through a supermajority joint resolution during the formal notification period.
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Edward Wong, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Two years later, the Idaho Legislature passed a joint resolution asking Congress to create a Sawtooth national park.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2022
One hundred years ago, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R., Mass.) and Rep. Hamilton Fish (R., N.Y.) steered a joint resolution through Congress putting the U.S. on record in supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
Then in 1923, a joint resolution was proposed in Congress, but failed to achieve necessary votes until 1972, when both chambers passed and forwarded the amendment to the states with a 7-year deadline for ratification.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
Now, lawmakers are considering a joint resolution that would repeal a deadline to ratify the ERA so that it can be enshrined in the Constitution.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
Rubio's joint resolution would overturn the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Waiver of Buy America Requirements for Electric Vehicle Chargers which was finalized in February and went into effect a month later.
—Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 26 July 2023
Proposed in 1971 by Bella Abzug, the formidable feminist organizer and federal lawmaker from New York, and passed as a joint resolution by Congress in 1973, Women’s Equality Day recognizes the fight for women’s suffrage and hard won ratification of the 19th Amendment.
—Time, 25 Aug. 2023
After annexation by treaty failed that year, President William McKinley inquired whether Hawaiʻi could be annexed through joint resolution, or a total of the votes on the issue from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
—Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
Edward Wong, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Two years later, the Idaho Legislature passed a joint resolution asking Congress to create a Sawtooth national park.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2022
One hundred years ago, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R., Mass.) and Rep. Hamilton Fish (R., N.Y.) steered a joint resolution through Congress putting the U.S. on record in supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
Then in 1923, a joint resolution was proposed in Congress, but failed to achieve necessary votes until 1972, when both chambers passed and forwarded the amendment to the states with a 7-year deadline for ratification.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
Now, lawmakers are considering a joint resolution that would repeal a deadline to ratify the ERA so that it can be enshrined in the Constitution.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
Rubio's joint resolution would overturn the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Waiver of Buy America Requirements for Electric Vehicle Chargers which was finalized in February and went into effect a month later.
—Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 26 July 2023
Proposed in 1971 by Bella Abzug, the formidable feminist organizer and federal lawmaker from New York, and passed as a joint resolution by Congress in 1973, Women’s Equality Day recognizes the fight for women’s suffrage and hard won ratification of the 19th Amendment.
—Time, 25 Aug. 2023
After annexation by treaty failed that year, President William McKinley inquired whether Hawaiʻi could be annexed through joint resolution, or a total of the votes on the issue from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
—Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
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