A special session of Congress, called at the request of President McKinley, met beginning in March 1897 to consider new tariff legislation; hawkish senators, including Foraker (who was made a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee), took the opportunity to press resolutions in support of the Cuban insurgents.
Critics have long pressed for resolution, one way or the other.
He confirmed that Britain and the US would press the resolution to a vote if the chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, reported on Friday that Saddam was still failing to comply fully with resolution 1441.
Back in Washington, a Republican congressman, Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, said in a telephone interview that he and eight other Republicans would press a resolution calling for the United States to boycott the Games.
Federal mediators flew in from Washington to press for resolution and by all accounts brought the sides much closer together.
Watch as the peace-makers and diplomats continue to press for resolution, emboldened but with patience and calm, but also, with long memories.
Italy's culture minister, Giuliano Urbani, visited Milan yesterday and pressed for the resolution of the dispute.
"Don't sweat the small stuff, just live life," she said when pressed for a resolution.
He pressed for a resolution that would have allowed the President to use force only to disarm Iraq.
Nonetheless, American officials have pressed for a resolution that would allow its counterterrorism operations in Yemen to continue.
