The strain over the trade pact bubbled to the surface last week after the president told the speaker he was submitting the agreement against her advice as well as that of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader.
The Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, also criticized the administration's negotiations on a lasting security agreement with Iraq and its refusal to submit the agreement to the Senate for ratification.
The administration agreed to submit the agreement as a treaty, and the Moscow agreement cleared the Senate.
And while the Iraqi parliament, and perhaps the Iraqi people through a future referendum, have been required to approve the agreement before it can go into affect, President Bush refused to submit the agreement for approval to the US Congress.
Other industrialised countries offered similar pledges to submit the agreement for approval to parliament.
Mr. Cuomo signed a compact for that casino and submitted the agreement to the Legislature, which never ratified it, though no one has challenged that compact in the Court of Appeals.
The Brazilians submitted bidding agreement forms yesterday, ahead of Monday's deadline, while Fifa confirmed that the Colombian Football Association had pulled out on Wednesday.
Worse, the leaders of the pilots union did not even submit the agreement to a vote, even though their members absorbed the biggest cuts.
As a dying act, it could submit the agreement to the IAEA's board, and hope that fair winds and American stewardship see it through.
Natan Sharansky, who left Mr. Barak's cabinet in protest over the summit meeting, sent a letter to the prime minister, urging him to submit any agreement on Jerusalem for approval by Jewish leaders, as well as by Parliament.
