The stage for Mr. Mazowiecki's election was set earlier, when none of the legislators voiced objections to a resolution accepting the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, who failed against Solidarity resistance to assemble a cabinet.
And shortly after lunch today, Republicans in the House met as a whole in the basement of the Capitol and approved by a shouted voice vote a resolution that would keep the Government closed until a legislative agreement was reached.
With Mr. Lott's promise to focus on NATO, the Senate found its voice on a resolution to add three former enemies to a military alliance formed nearly 50 years ago to stop the spread of Communism.
At its winter meeting in Washington, the RNC approved by voice vote a resolution in favor of abolishing the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), set to take effect in July, marking the party's first explicit attack on the law.
Senators, on a voice vote, approved a resolution nullifying the new, relaxed ownership rules adopted in December by the Federal Communications Commission.
As an alternative, the United States, which also opposed the uplisting, and ten African nations pushed a voice vote on a resolution for all CITES members to close their domestic ivory markets.
The fight began in January, when the City Council unanimously passed a resolution voicing its support for "the natural family," with a mother, father and "a full quiver of children".
Voicing American support for a resolution condemning the violence used by the Syrian government against its own people, Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday that some countries on the Security Council were disingenuously using Libya as a pretext not to pass a resolution on Syria.
She is still awaiting a resolution.
She heard voices, a television, laughter.
On a voice vote, the Senate passed a resolution condemning the eugenics movement.
