Members of Congress from both parties have sought to repeal main parts of it, and the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday became the latest of more than 230 communities to approve a symbolic resolution in opposition to the law.
Several tribes in South Dakota have said they strongly oppose the pipeline, adopting tribal resolutions in opposition to the project.
In September 2013, Senator Cruz spoke in opposition of the inclusion of the Affordable Care Act in a continuing resolution to fund the government.
The same is true of this resolution, from 2014, from the Council of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe with a population of just over 300,000, who joined in opposition of Native American mascots and nicknames.
But sponsors of the resolution, in the face of opposition from the administration and a wide coalition of mostly progressive organizations, failed to muster sufficient momentum to get it to the floor of the Senate and the legislation is now, to all intents and purposes, on ice.
At a recent meeting of the Republican National Committee, social conservatives still in control there were able to pass a resolution not only in opposition to same-sex marriage but asserting the constitutionality of DOMA.
Supporting a toughly worded resolution in the face of strong Israeli opposition would be a major leap, and one that even an aggrieved second-term president might not be willing to make.
But they have yet to push through a UN resolution in the face of Chinese and Russian opposition and, with little appetite for military intervention, seem unable to do more than watch as the regime continues to oppress its population.
The ayatollah, whose family was driven into exile, leads the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Resolution in Iraq, an opposition group based in Iran.
