Full Title: Obama’s Plan to Avoid Senate Review of the Paris Protocol
Author(s): Steven Groves
Publisher(s): The Heritage Foundation
Publication Date: September 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
The Paris Protocol climate change agreement—to be negotiated between November 30 and December 11, 2015—should be submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent. President Obama seems poised to circumvent Congress and prevent the Senate from having any input on the agreement. That is alarming behavior on the President’s part, since international commitments made by the executive branch often have significant domestic implications. Such a circumvention, if undertaken by the Administration, would evince an unprecedented level of executive unilateralism, and should be opposed by Congress by any and all means.