The first vote in the Senate, said Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, "demonstrates the broad bipartisan support that the agreement enjoys".
In conclusion, our findings lend further support to the notion that agreement on disclosure to offspring is related to the quality of the partner relationship in heterosexual couples.
While the subject of inter-reviewer agreement on different components of a checklist is relatively under-researched, some previous studies offer support for our finding that agreement is better when reviewers can be more objective in their assessments.
Asked if he still supported that agreement, given that it is with a man who is accused of rape and who is in prison, Mr. Caligiuri said, "I'm more convinced than ever before that it was in Waterbury's best interest".
Although the probability of chance agreement is low as this study involved 11 experts [ 29] we also calculated average pair-wise agreement between raters with resulting data supporting that agreement was not due to chance alone.
Antigua argued (with fairly strong support) that this violated a trade agreement between the US and Antigua, by blocking a form of free trade.
"If Ted Kennedy doesn't support the agreement, that's his privilege, but I think he'll be in the minority, and he should be," Mr. Hatch said.
Indonesia has also expressed belated interest in signing up, but the new Trudeau government in Canada has not yet said whether it will ultimately support the agreement that was negotiated by the outgoing prime minister, Stephen Harper.
A range of American and Iraqi experts who support the agreement acknowledge that this complaint is one that will have to be negotiated separately.
Diplomats said they found it striking that Europe was willing to stand up to its pharmaceutical industries and support the agreement, but that the United States was not.
