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joint resolution

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joint resolution
n.
A resolution passed by both houses of a bicameral legislature and eligible to become a law if signed by the chief executive or passed over the chief executive's veto.
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Noun1.joint resolution - a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto)
resolution, resolve, declaration - a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

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Since this is a House resolution, not a joint resolution or a bill, it is neither sent to the Senate nor signed by the president.
Assembly Joint Resolution 52, authored by Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, asks the president, Congress and NASA to send Atlantis to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale for display upon its planned retirement in 2008.
He also argues that the joint resolution passed by Congress after 9/11 that led to the war in Iraq grants the president the power to order this type of surveillance--sometimes called the Authorization to Use Military Force, or AUMF.
 
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