The prime minister said he would seek parliamentary approval before escalating Britain's involvement.
Whether the United States is rightly defending our NATO allies against Russian belligerence or, as Putin argues, the outgoing administration is, unprovoked, backing Moscow into a corner, the fact remains that this is a serious military commitment escalating without explicit congressional approval or even meaningful advisement.
With Raisuli's demands escalating, Hay, with Roosevelt's approval, finally cabled the consul-general in Tangier, Samuel Gummeré: The 1904 Republican National Convention was in session, and the Speaker of the House, Joseph Cannon, its chair, read the first sentence of the cable and only the first sentence to the convention, electrifying what had been a humdrum coronation of Roosevelt.
Bucking his own party, he won praise from Senator Lindsey Graham and other Republicans by chastising the White House for escalating its presence in Syria and Iraq without seeking congressional approval.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposal to limit local property taxes won overwhelming approval from the State Senate on Monday, escalating the pressure on Democratic legislators in the Assembly who have expressed reservations about the bill.
After escalating pressure from veterans and media coverage, Sisley finally secured approval in April from two other federal bodies that must vet marijuana research — the US Public Health Service and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which supplies the pot.
Of course, the people who are telling us now that the president doesn't need congressional approval to escalate militarily in Syria are the same people who told us last fall that the president didn't need congressional approval to bomb Syria.
There's the approval of the new drug last year and the fact that clinical trials are escalating in a way that we've never seen before.
Her approval rating there fell to 40 percent from 64 percent at the start of June, when the protests began escalating.
The Food and Drug Administration, escalating its campaign against generic drugs that it believes have been marketed improperly, announced Monday that it will withdraw approval of the last remaining generic equivalent of Dyazide, a leading blood pressure drug.
The battle between Connecticut and New York over the 24-mile electric cable crossing under Long Island Sound is escalating to Congress, which is set to vote this week on a broad national energy bill with one sentence granting permanent approval for the cable's operation.
