However, in February 1870, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas ratified the amendment, bringing the total ratifying states to twenty-nine one more than the required twenty-eight ratifications from the thirty-seven states, and forestalling any court challenge to New York's resolution to withdraw its consent.
Last month, the House also passed a resolution to withdraw U.S. support for the war, and the Senate is scheduled to vote again on the measure in the upcoming weeks.
Under the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act that approved the agreement to establish the WTO, any congressional legislator is permitted to introduce a "privileged" joint resolution to withdraw the original congressional approval of the WTO agreement and thus end U.S. participation in the organization.
The council's assembly backed a resolution to withdraw the voting rights of Russia's 18-member delegation.
10 40 AM ET -- House resolution to withdraw troops from Afghanistan rejected.
A resolution to withdraw U.S. support from the war passed the Senate in December, and was revived this year after Democrats took the House majority.
In March, Stearns voted against Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-Ohio) resolution to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
There were other demands: that the United Nations should strip Israel of its weapons of mass destruction; that Israel should be forced, under Security Council resolutions, to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories; and that the United Nations should formally brand the United States and Britain "liars".
This is particularly the case for Israel, which is in violation of UN resolutions to withdraw from the occupied territories.
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops urged Roman Catholic dioceses and institutions yesterday to strip themselves of their holdings in companies operating in South Africa or persuade those companies through stockholder resolutions to withdraw business from that country.
"On the basis that it appears likely the resolution will not achieve the 11 votes in favour that it requires and there is now some damage being done to the league's commercial prospects and, by implication, your own club's potential future distributions, I would ask you to consider whether you would, especially given current circumstances and uncertainties, wish to withdraw the resolution.
