1.   Biden said on Tuesday that he had told Clinton that treaty supporters were well short of the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution to ratify the pact.

2.   China, which has not ratified the pact and is taking its lead from the United States, on Tuesday urged the Senate to approve the treaty.

3.   China, which has not ratified the pact and is taking its lead from the United States, Tuesday urged the Senate to approve it.

4.   Congress must ratify the pact in order for it to take effect.

5.   Ecuador ratified the pact but then repudiated it, and its maps still show the old borders.

6.   However, the turnout was greater than that three years ago when members ratified pacts with BellSouth, Smith said.

7.   Key nations may never ratify the pact.

8.   Most other countries are waiting for the United States to act before they formally ratify the pact.

9.   Murphy said that some issues remain to be resolved with the governments of those two countries before those two pacts can be ratified, though.

10.   Rank-and-file workers now must ratify the pact.