These non-binding resolutions, often called "state sovereignty resolutions" do not carry the force of law.
The committee meets today to hear witnesses for a non-binding resolution that would address those defects.
The Senate didn't stop with its non-binding resolution.
The President named a three-member panel to recommend a non-binding resolution of the dispute.
A non-binding resolution is a written motion adopted by a deliberative body that cannot progress into a law.
In September 2007, a non-binding resolution passed the Senate endorsing such a scheme.
This non-binding resolution died in the Senate without being brought up for debate or being voted upon.
Feeney cosponsored a non-binding resolution against the use of foreign law in federal courts.
The effort is aimed at blocking two non-binding resolutions directly critical of the troop increase.
Indeed, last week the Senate passed a non-binding resolution to do just that.