Practice question
A treaty requiring Senate concurrence receives an endorsement from a Senate committee but no concurrence vote of the Senate itself. The executive claims the committee's unanimous approval is enough. Which answer is correct?
- Committee unanimity always replaces the full Senate vote
- The President may count committee votes as votes of absent senators
- Any House resolution supplies the missing concurrence
- The committee may delegate concurrence to its chair
- The required concurrence of at least two-thirds of all Senate members has not been supplied
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 21: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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