The resolution's sponsor, Rep. Robin Kelly of Chicago, made a telling comment about Congress' inability to act on this issue.
The Syria aid crisis portrayed by Ms. Amos in her Security Council briefing reflected new levels of frustration over the Council's inability to act decisively on the conflict, despite its binding — and so far successful — Sept. 27 resolution on the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
Whether the apartheid case, which seeks $400 billion in damages from the corporate defendants, ever gets to trial remains highly uncertain, despite the Supreme Court's inability to act on the companies' request to dismiss it.
Greeks and Spaniards both watched as their elected officials shrugged helplessly in the face of the deepening crisis, pointing at the EU for their inability to act.
He mocked the Council for its inability to act forcefully in the current war in Lebanon, saying, "You be the judge of how much credibility this leaves for the Security Council.
The Senate's unique madness is its inability to act at all.
"I can't say as I stand here that I believe that all of a sudden the Assembly will end its unwillingness or inability to act on this issue, but we have to try and I intend to try, and this is an extraordinary effort to get a resolution," he told reporters at a rare formal news conference in the Capitol.
Their poor communication was pointed to by a panel of inquiry led by William H. Webster, a former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as a factor in the city's inability to act quickly to quell the disturbances.
John C. Felmy, chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute, also expressed unhappiness at the government's inability to act on energy matters, though from a different perspective.
Walter Robb, joint chief executive of food chain Whole Foods Market, told the Seattle Times: "Government has shown its limits, and its inability to act in many cases; it's really incumbent on business to step up to a broader view of responsibility".
Moreover, polls show that the public already sees Congress as the primary culprit for "gridlock," the current term for Washington's seeming inability to act on anything that matters.
