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joint resolution n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a resolution passed by both houses of a bicameral legislature, signed by the chief executive and legally binding ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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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